Hacker News: supermatou

What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code?

supermatou — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:56:30 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260519-00/?p=112339

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214025

Points: 58

# Comments: 16

Why do Windows editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB?

supermatou — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:12:44 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260512-00/?p=112316

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150397

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Window 95 defenses against installers overwriting files with older versions

supermatou — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:31:35 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260324-00/?p=112159

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534639

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Bitfield Pitfalls

supermatou — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:00:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/bitfield-pitfalls/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457395

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

DOS Memory Management

supermatou — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:05:17 +0000

Article URL: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos-memory-management/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184864

Points: 13

# Comments: 4

New comment by supermatou in "Backdoors in VStarcam Cameras"

supermatou — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:35:20 +0000

"For some reason VStarcam really wants to have access to their customer’s passwords."

Backdoors in VStarcam Cameras

supermatou — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:35:20 +0000

Article URL: https://palant.info/2026/01/07/backdoors-in-vstarcam-cameras/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526210

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

An overview of the PPPP protocol for IoT cameras

supermatou — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:31:05 +0000

Article URL: https://palant.info/2025/11/05/an-overview-of-the-pppp-protocol-for-iot-cameras/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823911

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by supermatou in "Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023)"

supermatou — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:58:02 +0000

Excellent article about Telegram's encryption from Matt Green (cryptographer, for those who haven't heard of him):

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...

More of GPT-5's image labelling

supermatou — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:56:51 +0000

Article URL: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71074

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249107

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A look at a P2P camera (LookCam app)

supermatou — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:31:15 +0000

Article URL: https://palant.info/2025/09/08/a-look-at-a-p2p-camera-lookcam-app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168789

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Life in stop motion: a review of akinetopsia

supermatou — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:40:43 +0000

Article URL: https://ojrd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13023-025-03781-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45094261

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

DOM-Based Extension Clickjacking: Your Password Manager Data at Risk

supermatou — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:40:16 +0000

Article URL: https://marektoth.com/blog/dom-based-extension-clickjacking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44959958

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by supermatou in "Phrack 72"

supermatou — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:03:51 +0000

Must read

https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article

8×19 Text Mode Font Origins

supermatou — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:14:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/8x19-text-mode-font-origins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44910191

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by supermatou in "Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland"

supermatou — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:08:53 +0000

> mysterious life form on a docked ship

> black goo

Hey, I've watched this X-Files episode before!

Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XVI: DOS 4.0 Select Is Too Clever

supermatou — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:51:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xvi-dos-4-0-select-is-too-clever/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44442135

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by supermatou in "Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found"

supermatou — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:48:17 +0000

No, I don't have it anymore. I kept it around for 3 or 4 years, trying various methods to revive it, then threw it away when I took a job in New Zealand, hoping to move there for good. Well, that didn't work out and I came back after a few years, but the drive (and many other things) were lost in the process.

Also: the drive was absolutely dead, it wouldn't power up. I even tried to change its controller - I took it off another Conner drive, installed it on the deceased one - and nothing happened. On that occasion I realized that, even though they were the same model/capacity, Conner had used different electronics for different batches.

Ironically, the drive was built like a tank: never again I saw a hard-drive with a casing that thick (looked like cast iron).

New comment by supermatou in "Airbus to test new engine design for successor to A320"

supermatou — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:24:31 +0000

https://archive.is/wip/gGX1h

Airbus to test new engine design for successor to A320

supermatou — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:23:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/bf9a3ac7-0928-44ba-a394-27e546203ea0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473688

Points: 19

# Comments: 13