Hacker News: vanchor3

New comment by vanchor3 in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

vanchor3 — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:18:48 +0000

Somehow going through closed issues just to reopen them sounds like more effort than just using the built in label system which is made for this purpose, but maybe that's just me.

New comment by vanchor3 in "The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces"

vanchor3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:20:29 +0000

They even put in an entire themes menu, with space as if you were going to have more themes you could download at some point, similar to the 3DS. 6 years later it's still just "Basic White" or "Basic Black".

New comment by vanchor3 in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

vanchor3 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:45:57 +0000

It seems like Cowork can easily chew through a few percent at a time, more if it gets lost in the weeds.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

vanchor3 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:08:26 +0000

> The crucial context here is that archive.today provides a useful public service for free.

So public services should DDoS is your argument?

> Jani Patokallio runs gyrovague.net in order to harass people who provide useful public services.

I scrolled pretty far through the blog and didn't find anything of that sort. Just a bunch of travel stuff. Now I'm curious what sort of "harassment" you hallucinated in the sites that were previously targeted by archive.today's DDoS attacks.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?"

vanchor3 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:29:30 +0000

They are still USB 1.1 however, so they won't be able to surpass that speed limitation over USB.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²"

vanchor3 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:04:35 +0000

I'm glad they put the two pieces of Blackmagic gear in the $135 rack mount shelf, just to set it on top of the desk in the end.

New comment by vanchor3 in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

vanchor3 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:31:05 +0000

Are you sure you have an iPhone 11? My iPhone 11 runs iOS 18.5 fine and is reportedly going to support iOS 26.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Why console makers can legally brick your game console"

vanchor3 — Tue, 27 May 2025 14:05:26 +0000

They already do this with used consoles and games. If you buy a used Switch that someone tampered with on the software side, the only way you would find out something is wrong is when you get blocked from Nintendo servers months later. Or perhaps you bought a used game that someone cloned the card ID from, and you end up getting blocked when others use the ID.

Getting blocked from the Nintendo servers doesn't just mean losing online play, you can't update the console or games, play game-key card games, or run downloaded games that it needs to validate your ownership of.

New comment by vanchor3 in "I tried Windows gaming on a Mac"

vanchor3 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:48:10 +0000

Lots of newer Mac Steam games do this as well. It's quite annoying as it also hides them from your library when you use the macOS filter.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank"

vanchor3 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:09:39 +0000

I had gone there a few times probably several months before they closed. It was quite sad how empty it was. Product hangers were lined up in a single row with one item on each hanger. The only shelf that looked full was the one aisle filled with just the same two pack of canned air, nothing else.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?"

vanchor3 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 23:27:26 +0000

They don't even need to deal with screen recording which this DRM is trying to protect against either. Just find a device that supports the highest playback resolution and steal the data right off the bus.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro"

vanchor3 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:40:14 +0000

RED has a patent on compressed RAW. Apple tried to invalidate it but failed, so anyone who wants to use the concept of compressed RAW has to license it from RED.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

vanchor3 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 01:30:10 +0000

In series with the power to the camera would be odd. You would be passing the same amount of current through both the camera and the LED. Unless you meant in parallel, which still leaves the other issue that the camera is likely always powered even when not in use, so the LED would always be on.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

vanchor3 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:54:51 +0000

> DRM was re-instantiated, when iTunes started streaming as Apple Music

Purchased music is DRM free. Streaming music was never DRM free, since you arguably do not "own" music that you have not purchased. Though I'm sure record labels would love if they could get DRM back on purchased music again.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Apple Macintosh before System 7"

vanchor3 — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 08:16:18 +0000

It is written very strangely. It's not exactly like they reached the decision to use F-line traps for co-processors, I'm pretty sure F-line traps were designated by Motorola for co-processors, and A-line traps were free for use for OS and Toolbox trap instructions.

The "software crashed expecting a co-processor" part doesn't make any sense either, you were always supposed to check if a co-processor was available. There was no big rug pull or anything, both the first models and some later models simply did not have co-processors. Developers were provided this information.

And the last two sentences seem completely unrelated to the prior ones, so I'm not really sure what they're trying to string together.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Could you pass this 8th grade test from 1912?"

vanchor3 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:48:48 +0000

I'd imagine it's much easier today, than it was in the past. We have TikTok and other forms of simple to access entertainment, no heavy reliance on cash and writing checks, and worse case you just ask someone else to help you.

Although I assume illiteracy indirectly implies that you can speak the language in some acceptable form, I would imagine it would be similar to living in another country without knowing the language. You go into the McDonald's click on the pictures of the food you want, press the big green button, then use your plastic card.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?"

vanchor3 — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:24:34 +0000

> Why do they need to give that products for free to everyone, or even their competitors?

It is "free". Anyone can make an extension using the API features. However they do not allow anyone other than themselves to bring it to market (i.e. the official extension marketplace).

New comment by vanchor3 in "Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017)"

vanchor3 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:28:37 +0000

They put in a lot of effort to prevent you from deleting the main executable (you the user that is, malware can probably delete it just fine using the usual methods) however one day I discovered you can delete the .dll files from its folder and it no longer runs, and Windows does not do anything to try and fix it.

New comment by vanchor3 in "YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally"

vanchor3 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:17:04 +0000

They do, but YouTube has plenty of excuses to not pay them regardless.

New comment by vanchor3 in "Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display"

vanchor3 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:14:25 +0000

We had a microwave in the office that auto started based on whatever number you pressed. If you wanted to type in 45 seconds, you would press 4 and it would instantly start running with 4 minutes on the timer. Everyone just pressed the "+30 seconds button" until it was close to the time they wanted and then stopped it manually to get it more precise.

If I remember right the solution was to press "Cook Power" then type in the number of seconds. There was nothing on the microwave to explain this, I had to look it up online.