Hacker News: tinyhitman

New comment by tinyhitman in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

tinyhitman — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:15:24 +0000

why would a consumer device need a randomized password?

New comment by tinyhitman in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

tinyhitman — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:34:00 +0000

Do you also happen to why this is not more common? Must be useful for more than just telephone wires.

New comment by tinyhitman in "Molly guard in reverse"

tinyhitman — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:45:51 +0000

> cloud provider had no virtual console for some reason.

Azure still hasn't got this. It has serial and does screenshots of the console, but no access to my knowledge.

New comment by tinyhitman in "Spherical Snake"

tinyhitman — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:13:56 +0000

Could be to allow use of local variables that do not leak into the scope this code is executed in. That's what I use this pattern for.

New comment by tinyhitman in "FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons"

tinyhitman — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:31:07 +0000

I don't know. As a developer there would be even more reason to be curious as to why the release binary is an order of magnitude slower then what is seen in development.

New comment by tinyhitman in "Convert Linux to Windows"

tinyhitman — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:04:14 +0000

Cool, hoping this will become more common and easier done with help from distro's!

New comment by tinyhitman in "Convert Linux to Windows"

tinyhitman — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:24:27 +0000

> and each app is isolated in a different user id

I always liked this idea; but wouldn't you run into issues with file permissions? And if not, wouldn't that mean that the program in question would have access to all your files anyhow, removing the benefit of isolation?

New comment by tinyhitman in "GitHub was down"

tinyhitman — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:10:34 +0000

delaying SLA

New comment by tinyhitman in "Things I know about Git commits"

tinyhitman — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:20:58 +0000

I'm sure I do.

New comment by tinyhitman in "What Is PID 0?"

tinyhitman — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:41:09 +0000

In the garbage language that we dont use anymore. Right? Right!? :)

New comment by tinyhitman in "Show HN: A simple, open-source Notion-like avatar generator"

tinyhitman — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:49:27 +0000

Sane, but I'm greeted with a three-eyed avatar, lol.

New comment by tinyhitman in "Minify and Gzip (2022)"

tinyhitman — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 12:44:06 +0000

Its not strictly the same. '1' is a number whereas '!0' is a boolean.

New comment by tinyhitman in "Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress"

tinyhitman — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:16:34 +0000

With steamcmd (the steam client CLI) one can download whatever version of their owned games they want.

New comment by tinyhitman in "ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs"

tinyhitman — Wed, 05 May 2021 10:30:09 +0000

Maybe prompt the user with a "use clean" or "use as-is" button (and "cancel").

and maybe a custom option; where you can toggle what is cleaned and whatnot.

and provide a "remember for this domain".

New comment by tinyhitman in "HTTPWTF"

tinyhitman — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:25:24 +0000

NotOnly-cache?

New comment by tinyhitman in "Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time"

tinyhitman — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:37:22 +0000

Sorry for the late response. This was on Windows yes but it must've been fixed by now as I very rarely reset profiles and haven't experienced this since. I'll keep your offer in the back of my head tho, thanks!

New comment by tinyhitman in "Don’t format a drive of M1 Macs from recovery mode"

tinyhitman — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:07:16 +0000

While I'm not disagreeing that this should be possible to (easily) factory reset a device, it also shouldn't be possible for just _anyone_ with physical access to completely reset the device either. Easy resets also mean more interesting to steal

New comment by tinyhitman in "Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time"

tinyhitman — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:16:37 +0000

Yeah this is likely. Not sure about other browsers but I haven't noticed any of such issues myself anymore. And hey, if it ain't broke... It would be a nice for browsermakers to implement such a testsuite tho, but until then its just too easy to just clear data. Average user has all data synced to their respective cloud accounts anyway or don't care enough.

New comment by tinyhitman in "Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time"

tinyhitman — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:46:25 +0000

Anecdotally in a certain Chrome version somewhere in the past years I've noticed something like this. The first 2 characters in my omnibox caused a terrible slowdown. So likely the history used for autocomplete kept growing or there was no sane index on the data.

Clearing my history fixed it to be _instantly_ again (even with history of a few days) and it took a few weeks to be very slow again.

So yes, I'd say its very likely that some of our assumptions might be false around such matters :)

luckily this was fixed sometime, but unfortunately this seems to coincide with autocomplete of Chrome not showing literally anything anymore.

New comment by tinyhitman in "External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs"

tinyhitman — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:19:53 +0000

Cool! I used to run a similar setup, when I started out I passed through the hardware. But when things were running smoothly I never booted back into windows natively (Wasn't planning on this use-case).

Nice to hear that it is possible. I feel like MS essentially gave everyone the wrong idea about OSes dealing with hardware changes.