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New comment by undebuggable in "SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)"

undebuggable — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:16:22 +0000

Ah so that's why they're going it! In front of TV I always feel like the dumbest person around.

New comment by undebuggable in "SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)"

undebuggable — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:52:39 +0000

That's all true. As a kid I was watching with sister a children's show in TV. The actor on the screen asked a question followed by silence. My sister yelled the answer at the TV, then the actor said something like "you're right kid". I was flabbergasted.

New comment by undebuggable in "Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)"

undebuggable — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:56:55 +0000

I heard he is still there at 20 meters banging a pair of rocks together.

New comment by undebuggable in "The road signs that teach travellers about France"

undebuggable — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:40:33 +0000

> In France who has the right of way? The car that is already in the roundabout or the car entering the roundabout?

Actually it's pretty consistent all across Europe. Almost everywhere, every entrance to the roundabout has the yield sign [1]. Without the yield sign, every incoming traffic is right hand traffic and those already on the roundabout have to give a way.

Now the trick is that yield signs at the entrance are so common that drivers assume they are always there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_sign

New comment by undebuggable in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

undebuggable — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:48:56 +0000

> the portal used incrementing numeric user IDs

> every account was provisioned with a static default password

Hehehe. I failed countless job interviews for mistakes much less serious than that. Yet someone gets the job while making worse mistakes, and there are plenty of such systems on production handling real people's data.

New comment by undebuggable in "Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?"

undebuggable — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:21:01 +0000

Shiny side is for wrapping the end of banana, the matte for the other end.

New comment by undebuggable in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

undebuggable — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:52:21 +0000

Now ask the question of all questions "how many car washes are in the entire country?".

New comment by undebuggable in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

undebuggable — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:06:44 +0000

There was more meeting time and salary budget involved in picking the yellow-red gradient inside a pen from the first icon on the left, that in the entire process of creating and releasing the icon first from the right.

New comment by undebuggable in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

undebuggable — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:40:46 +0000

https://ow.cx/

New comment by undebuggable in "The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation"

undebuggable — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:56:58 +0000

I'm tired of using technology, boss.

New comment by undebuggable in "Examples are the best documentation"

undebuggable — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:02:41 +0000

It already exists - tldr. Use it side by side with man.

New comment by undebuggable in "You can't parse XML with regex. Let's do it anyways"

undebuggable — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:26:24 +0000

> https://xkcd.com/208/

You say you know the regular expression for an address? hehe

New comment by undebuggable in "Aerocart cargo gliders"

undebuggable — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:55:03 +0000

I use my cargo gliders only for full scale landing operations.

New comment by undebuggable in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"

undebuggable — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:34:03 +0000

Without comments it's much simpler and cheaper than a $5 VPS and a random CMS, with comments it's much complicated and expensive than a $5 VPS and a random CMS.

New comment by undebuggable in "The graduate 'jobpocalypse': Where have all the entry-level jobs gone? [video]"

undebuggable — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:42:35 +0000

There are three career stages. First you're not qualified enough, then for a moment you're overqualified, and at last you're too old. The last stage occurs few decades before statutory retirement age.

New comment by undebuggable in "Why I gave the world wide web away for free"

undebuggable — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:55:59 +0000

The web was truly a hyper idea!

New comment by undebuggable in "Models of European metro stations"

undebuggable — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:26:56 +0000

I was never able to build mental model of Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Most of the times was simply following the signs and yup, the layout is complicated.

New comment by undebuggable in "Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver"

undebuggable — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:13:16 +0000

Imagine the horror when a random stranger finally installs and sets up that bloody printer on your laptop.

New comment by undebuggable in "Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons"

undebuggable — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:51:15 +0000

I guess the Danish mega project is kamelåså.

New comment by undebuggable in "The man with a Home Computer (1967) [video]"

undebuggable — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:34:16 +0000

Jetsons cartoon, Back to The Future, Space Odyssey, even more distant predictions [1]? That's from the top of my head without even searching thoroughly.

[1] - https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2021/09/1280px-Franc...