Hacker News: supermatou

New comment by supermatou in "The new Firefox design is here"

supermatou — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:02:48 +0000

Bonus:

/* Hide Kit mascot illustrations from menus, dialogs, and in-app alerts */

.mascot-icon,

.panel-header-mascot,

[mascot="kit"],

.onboarding-mascot-container {

    display: none !important;

}

New comment by supermatou in "The new Firefox design is here"

supermatou — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:58:52 +0000

Here you go: add this to your userChrome.css file.

/disable gradient

/ 1. Remove the toolbar/tab bar gradient completely /

:root:not([theme-image-in-toolbox]) body,

:root[theme-image-in-toolbox] #navigator-toolbox {

    background-image: none !important;

}

/ 2. Strip Nova purple accent color/focus outlines from the URL & search bar */

:root {

    --toolbar-field-focus-background-color: var(--toolbar-field-background-color) !important;

}

.urlbar-input-container, #searchbar {

    --toolbar-field-border-color-focus: var(--toolbar-field-border-color) !important;

    box-shadow: none !important;

}

Disable Windows Defender via Antivirus Fake Registration

supermatou — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:23:52 +0000

Article URL: https://ipurple.team/2026/09/09/windows-security-center/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624641

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture

supermatou — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:57:42 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260814-00/?p=112613

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350822

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The little-known winstart.bat batch file

supermatou — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:09:04 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260811-00/?p=112605

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290563

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The End of an Athlon

supermatou — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:46:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244407

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by supermatou in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

supermatou — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:43:07 +0000

>I can just kill the GPU rendering process

>and it picks back up with no data loss,

>whereas with Firefox I had to restart the whole thing

about:processes > kill the GPU process without having to restart Firefox.

An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust

supermatou — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:47:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/hello-getoptsargs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145156

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results

supermatou — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:42:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099804

Points: 192

# Comments: 116

Maximum Overkill

supermatou — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:48:21 +0000

Article URL: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/maximum-overkill/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034235

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded 2

supermatou — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:55:37 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260626-00/?p=112472

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736525

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

supermatou — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:10:50 +0000

Article URL: https://schamper.dev/dissecting-apples-sparse-image-format-asif/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708644

Points: 163

# Comments: 24

The DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

supermatou — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:37:26 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260625-00/?p=112467

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677514

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Study links joint pain supplement to accelerating dementia

supermatou — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:58:45 +0000

Article URL: https://ufhealth.org/news/2026/study-links-joint-pain-supplement-to-accelerating-dementia-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473488

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The future of Siri, or: why private inference isn't private enough

supermatou — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:48:39 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/apples-siri-ai-or-more-shouting-into-the-void-about-private-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473385

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Browser Extensions Silently Monetize ~758,000 Users' Searches

supermatou — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:15:52 +0000

Article URL: https://malext.io/reports/SearchJack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465177

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years

supermatou — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:08:10 +0000

Article URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2849122

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435584

Points: 192

# Comments: 83

Win16 Memory Management

supermatou — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:16:47 +0000

Article URL: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/win16-memory-management/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410844

Points: 151

# Comments: 84

Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

supermatou — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:06:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/05/29/fooling-around-with-encrypted-reasoning-blobs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321210

Points: 161

# Comments: 33

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