Hacker News: trympet

New comment by trympet in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

trympet — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:23:05 +0000

Do any of the legit scene groups sign their binaries? How do you know a release isn’t tainted?

New comment by trympet in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

trympet — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:01:27 +0000

On a modern OS, doesn’t the kernel (eventually) take care of the cleanup anyways?

New comment by trympet in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

trympet — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:27:47 +0000

Did you also have a windows 8 laptop with touch screen?

New comment by trympet in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

trympet — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:03:56 +0000

I tend to agree, but the FMC on Boeing aircraft sure leave something to be desired.. I do not find the menu/tab system very ergonomic (and the non-QWERTY key layout)

New comment by trympet in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

trympet — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:14:39 +0000

Love the transparency - someone should make you VP of ..uhm dev rel or something! I was being quite hyperbolic in my original comment, however, I _do_ think you are doing the right thing, and you are definitely not the bad guy.

Having said that, there are big corps who have been known to use the CFAA as a way to coerce the long arm of the law upon teenagers and geeks hacking away - not always a great thing either IMO.

New comment by trympet in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

trympet — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:19:13 +0000

Nice, thank you Martin. How do you punish the fraudsters? Do you send them to prison over CFAA violation terms of service?

New comment by trympet in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

trympet — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:59:00 +0000

Security through ..rarity? Maybe not for nation state actors though.

New comment by trympet in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:33:08 +0000

I have 2 or 3 yubikeys associated with my account. I think apple does a decent job at communicating the importance of having recovery keys to the point where they deter those who can’t be bothered.

Yubikeys are great

New comment by trympet in "The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:26:22 +0000

> C# doesn't depend on a VM these days when it is AOT compiled

Maybe I’m being pedantic, but this is an oxymoron. Also the premise is incorrect. It’s not like the VM is gone. Merely baked into the code at compile time. It compiles IL to native code. Same for IL2CPP. The VM is still there.

The term “virtual machine” is confusing. I think you meant to say JIT compiler :-)

New comment by trympet in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:17:30 +0000

Why?

New comment by trympet in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:16:32 +0000

> Apple’s solution affects your whole digital life

I don’t know if that’s generally true. I could lose my apple account and not really give a a damn. Not that I see how such a thing would happen, save for apple burning down all their datacenters. I’m running ADP

New comment by trympet in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:13:28 +0000

> because of the serious (potentially destructive) consequences

Huh? What are you talking about? I don’t see anything destructive about it.

New comment by trympet in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:13:37 +0000

How do you work on the go? I use personal hotspot quite often. Not only when on the go, but if there is unstable WiFi. It’s saved me on multiple occasions - both for live-site incidents and for random meetings.

New comment by trympet in "Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)"

trympet — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:08:42 +0000

As someone not very deep into databases, these papers were fun to read.

New comment by trympet in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

trympet — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:58:11 +0000

Today's Yap score is 8192.

New comment by trympet in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

trympet — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:13:13 +0000

It uses a Unix keyboard layout where the caps lock is swapped out with the ctrl key. I think it’s much more ergonomic to have the ctrl on the home row. The arrow keys are behind a fn modifier resting on the right pinky. Also accessible without moving your fingers from the home row. It’s frankly the best keyboard I ever had from an ergonomic POV. Key feel is also great, but the layout has a bit of a learning curve.

New comment by trympet in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

trympet — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:02:38 +0000

Dunno why I’m getting downvoted. Is it because you disagree with my statement? Is it because I’m off topic? Do you think I’m a shill?

New comment by trympet in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

trympet — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:17:24 +0000

> Just wait until you get a group of nerds talking about keyboards

Don’t get me started on the HHKB [1] with Topre membrane keyswitches. It is simply put the best keyboard on the market. Buy this. (No, Fujitsu didn’t pay me to say this)

[1] - https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb/

New comment by trympet in "Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems"

trympet — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:57:13 +0000

I prefer using MS Exchange mailboxes for my message queue.

New comment by trympet in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

trympet — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:58:46 +0000

What about a farm worker who tills the land? Is every farmer/farm worker achieving business goals through _cooperation_? What about seasonal farm workers? I guess the farmer can set up incentive payments, but even so, are you saying there no adversarial component to the relationship?