Hacker News: unnouinceput

New comment by unnouinceput in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

unnouinceput — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:19:27 +0000

I see that as an absolute win. Free publicity and all that jazz. Plus idiots with their fake submissions of bugs will either bleed money or gtfo from my repo.

New comment by unnouinceput in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

unnouinceput — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:46:28 +0000

Quote 1: "We need to return to a habit of building software where our local devices do the work."

Quote 2: "I can only speak on the tooling available within the Apple ecosystem since that’s what I focused initial development efforts on."

Oh, the irony. I will use your tooling when is available on Android with F-droid, that's when, at least, be decoupled from big companies grip.

New comment by unnouinceput in "Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)"

unnouinceput — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:59:08 +0000

Making you own language is easy. Creating the library that will actually solve problems without forcing the developers to reinvent the wheel is the crux. There is a reason why C++ / Java / JavaScript etc are established, it's the already proven libraries around those languages that allows them to be so successful.

New comment by unnouinceput in "Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)"

unnouinceput — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:41:32 +0000

Of course the devil is in details. This entire article read like an alien visiting Earth and concluding "Humans and Dogs have 84% DNA in common, no wonder they make such a good pair."

New comment by unnouinceput in "Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)"

unnouinceput — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:42:51 +0000

One of the first things I do (after using O&O ShutUp10++ of course) when setting a new installation is to create "C:\Temp\" folder and go to them variables to point there. Mind you, you have global TMP and TEMP, and you have user defined (which points to \Windows\Temp instead of %LOCALAPPDATA%/Temp) ones. All 4 will point to my folder and makes my life a lot easier in the long run

New comment by unnouinceput in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

unnouinceput — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:17:45 +0000

Your comment is blowing something out of proportions. He prefers 25+, said so. Toxic in there means "F u", get a "F u and u'r mother" back and both persons laughs after. It's not toxic in the sense of "I will kill you and your entire family", but more like venting something in a safe space. You don't go in real life to a random stranger and say "F u", but in a lobby of a virtual game that's acceptable. And he's saying he prefer that since also going to a lobby full of 9 years old kids and saying that is way more toxic and he prefers the algorithm to actually match him with appropriate ones instead of throwing him in young lobbies and then cannot be able to speak with them. So clearly the algorithm is half baked, made communications worse and needs more tuning. Swearing is part of any culture in humanity, and there is a reason the among the first things you learn in a foreign language is swearing. Used wisely, that "toxicity" is actually a great tool to forge good relations.

New comment by unnouinceput in "Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks"

unnouinceput — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:44:57 +0000

"....using HTML tables as bastardized CSS"

Bro, the gazzilion DIV inside DIV spilled nonsense by all these modern frameworks is driving me crazy. TABLE as bastardized CSS is instant rendering. But hey, you're young, I get it.

New comment by unnouinceput in "A perfectable programming language"

unnouinceput — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:16:44 +0000

"The compile speed of Go" - Delphi starts laughing

New comment by unnouinceput in "PGLite Evangelism"

unnouinceput — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:02:21 +0000

Quote: "... you just import ‘pglite’ in code, and you will have a fully-fledged Postgres instance writing to a local file, rather than a separate docker container..."

Because a docker container is a magic happening in heaven instead of being just another local file, right? /s

New comment by unnouinceput in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

unnouinceput — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:21:42 +0000

I want the opposite. And I want to behave like a true Android. Reason: My fucking useless bank that has a banking app that only runs on non-rooted Android only (cause fuck iOS/web according to them). My attempts to run their shitty app on emulators, virtual machines and the like failed. So currently I have a dumb phone that only has their crappy app on it and that's all. On a separate Google account, because I do not dare to link my main Google account to their name.

Any advice?

New comment by unnouinceput in "How not to securely erase a NVME drive (2022)"

unnouinceput — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:57:30 +0000

WTF is wrong with just copy/paste the same big unimportant file (like a movie) until you run out of space and then just delete them all? So much unnecessary hurdle with different utilities and commands that made my head spin. What do you think those utilities do in the background anyway if not filling the free space with junk, just like what a copy/paste does?

New comment by unnouinceput in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

unnouinceput — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:52:22 +0000

Looking into Issues, reading 48 and just scrolling at beginning: "Local and LAN systems talk, but will not authenticate" / "Multiplayer Game Problem" / "cannot restore DB" / "Items stats do not reflect the game class"...etc, just to name a few.

Yeah, I really like to get frustration when I am gaming due to unsupported and canceled project /s

New comment by unnouinceput in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

unnouinceput — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:46:18 +0000

Tell that to the crackers who worked for over a year to simulate a social network in order to finally crack the game Red Dead Redemption 2, which had a very custom game protection implemented by Rockstar. Also to this day there is no crack to Diablo 3, famous for being single player but with online verification. You can create very hard to crack protections quite easy if you employ self-modifying code techniques. Do you have any idea how hard is to debug code that overwrites itself in memory and that cannot be patched by modifying the existing code from disk? The reason why this is not more common is because the more iterations you do, the harder is to create those iterations, which means you add a lot of time to create the protection which means that you need to have a finished code, and code is always modified by production team, so managers see this overtime unnecessary.

New comment by unnouinceput in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

unnouinceput — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:55:27 +0000

I feel Windows 11 is in the initial phase of Windows 10. Remember beginning of years for 10? Sluggy, clunky, full of bugs? And everybody and their cat was holding to 7? I was the same, I was holding down the fort with 7. This year 7, next year 7 and so on until at one time I, like countless times before, spun a new virtual machine for a client and as usual I had to put 10 in there. Except this time 10 felt faster. No more clumsiness, no more slop. 2 months later I fully switched to 10 as my host OS.

I am currently on 10 so much that I installed the LTSC version that has support until 2032. Keep hammering Microslop, they deserve it. We need to keep bugging them, throw dirt on their face until they actually fix it. Seems that's the way with them nowadays. So I don't feel any shame to call them names at every corner.

But I am still not switching to Linux. Maybe in '32 when LTSC stop being supported and they still didn't fix 11. Oh, and from my experience, Debian will be the way to go. I like a proven distribution even if their repository is not the greatest and the latest.

New comment by unnouinceput in "Replacing Protobuf with Rust"

unnouinceput — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:33:37 +0000

Quote: "We forked pg_query.rs and replaced Protobuf with direct C-to-Rust (and back to C) bindings, ...."

So it's C actually, not Rust. But Hey! we used Rust somewhere, so let's post it on HN and farm internet points.

New comment by unnouinceput in "The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible"

unnouinceput — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:43:34 +0000

My link: https://update.web-safe.link/iy1bxm_money_request

New comment by unnouinceput in "Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses"

unnouinceput — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:17:50 +0000

from those who pay them. They are a service for hire. you can hire them if you want and have the dough.

New comment by unnouinceput in "Facts about throwing good parties"

unnouinceput — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:21:37 +0000

Spaghetti without tomato sauce? That's like pissing in the morning without farting. Sure, it'll get the main job done but it's not the same pure pleasure.

New comment by unnouinceput in "Writing FreeDOS Programs in C"

unnouinceput — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 02:10:42 +0000

Almost zero, the non-zero ones are about supporting legacy software/hardware. Also I would not touch C on any DOS platform, since the great Turbo Pascal exists for it. Nothing else even compares to it.

New comment by unnouinceput in "Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?"

unnouinceput — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:07:41 +0000

Go ahead and do it. Put the code at your convenience on github. I don't care about your livestream, you can do it whenever. What I want is an app that I can install on my smartphone, Android, and that I can have my son do it as well and we play together. I am giving you a generous one week, should be more than enough for your "AI can do it easier". I did it in a month, and I put like 120 hours during that time. You get close to those 120 hours or over, you fail this "challenge accepted". Have fun.