Hacker News: veganjay

New comment by veganjay in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

veganjay — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:48:26 +0000

Fun game. I found had trouble seeing the color contrast, so I modified the connection color by updating the CSS for .root.tile to #aaffff

New comment by veganjay in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

veganjay — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:24:15 +0000

I have an older laptop with a 32-bit processor and found that TinyCoreLinux runs well on it. It has its own package manager that was easy to learn. This distro can be handy in these niche situations.

New comment by veganjay in "A We-Free December"

veganjay — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:28:43 +0000

I went to a restaurant and they asked "How we doing?". And I said "I don't know. I'm doing well, but I'm not sure how you are doing."

New comment by veganjay in "987654321 / 123456789"

veganjay — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:37:48 +0000

Reminds me of an old calculator trick:

Pick an integer between 1 and 9. Multiple it by 9. Take that number and multiply it by 12345679. (Skip the 8)

>>> 3 * 9

>>> 12345679 * 27

333333333

This all works because:

>>> 111111111 / 9

12345679.0

New comment by veganjay in "Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories"

veganjay — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:16:34 +0000

Neat to see this done by hand! It helps demystify the magic behind git commands.

If you like this, I also recommend "Write Yourself a Git", where you build a minimal git implementation using python: https://wyag.thb.lt/

New comment by veganjay in "uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust"

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:24:43 +0000

Initially, I used `uv tool run `, but later discovered `uv tool install `. The `install` command downloads dependencies once and caches them for future use. It is similar to how `pipx install ` works.

e.g.

$ uv tool install asciinema

$ asciinema play example.cast

New comment by veganjay in "Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game"

veganjay — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:06:36 +0000

Nice! Fun game.

Similar idea, different interface: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189814

https://bobsword.com/

New comment by veganjay in "Ask HN: Looking to Break into Cybersecurity – Where Do I Start?"

veganjay — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:50:03 +0000

Another good one: https://owasp.org/www-project-juice-shop/

New comment by veganjay in "Don't Fuck with Scroll"

veganjay — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:09:55 +0000

I'm also curious if this functionality is possible to achieve through browser configuration.

Alternatively, a browser extension could potentially provide a helpful solution.

I suspect the implementation may vary on a case-by-case basis. The example [1] on the page utilizes the luxy.js [2] library.

For this specific page [1], I found that I can disable the smooth scrolling behavior by running the following command in the developer tools console:

luxy.init({ wrapperSpeed: 1.0});

1. https://dontfuckwithscroll.com/smooth.html

2. https://min30327.github.io/luxy.js/

New comment by veganjay in "End of Octojam (2023)"

veganjay — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 17:41:57 +0000

I enjoyed participating in Octojam (the CHIP-8 game jam) in previous years and sad to see it come to an end.

Working with CHIP-8 inspired me to a CHIP-8 emulator which was a great learning experience.

End of Octojam (2023)

veganjay — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 17:37:52 +0000

Article URL: https://beyondloom.com/blog/octojam.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41751506

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by veganjay in "Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP"

veganjay — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:26:20 +0000

Chisel is a handy red-team tool. I learned about it training for the OSCP (Offsec Certified Professional). It comes in handy under certain situations.

Another tool I recommend is Ligolo-ng [1]. You set up a network interface and use "ip route" to send traffic through it. In a way, it "feels like a VPN".

[1] https://github.com/nicocha30/ligolo-ng

New comment by veganjay in "Atuin – Magical shell history"

veganjay — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 01:12:28 +0000

Previous announcement by the author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839470

New comment by veganjay in "Damn Small Linux 2024"

veganjay — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:59:10 +0000

I was looking for a lightweight OS to run on old Asus Eee PC 1005 HA, which uses a 32-bit Intel Atom N270 processor. I installed Void Linux (https://voidlinux.org/).

I may give DSL 2024 a try and see how it compares.

New comment by veganjay in "1D Pac-Man"

veganjay — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:56:46 +0000

Love it! I like seeing Pac-man put into strange scenarios.

I made a slightly similar (1.5d?) game for the CHIP-8. Pacman can only go left and right, but the ghosts fall from the sky.

https://veganjay.itch.io/falling-ghosts

New comment by veganjay in "SSH over HTTPS"

veganjay — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 14:56:14 +0000

I learned about chisel in PEN-200 / preparing for the OSCP.

Then I learned about, Ligolo-ng [1] which is a game-changer. I highly recommend checking it out. It is most applicable to a penetration test. It uses TLS so I'm not sure it could be used to address the issue mentioned in the article.

[1] https://github.com/nicocha30/ligolo-ng

New comment by veganjay in "DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (2010)"

veganjay — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:46:08 +0000

There's also Bask (bash + flask). It's a CTF challenge on day 8 of HackVent (1). It's based off an article on building a bash web server (2).

1. https://hv23.idocker.hacking-lab.com/

2. https://dev.to/leandronsp/building-a-web-server-in-bash-part...

New comment by veganjay in "Deciyear Calendar"

veganjay — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:17:12 +0000

Seems like a combination of the Kodak Calendar (1) and Swatch Internet Time (2):

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

New comment by veganjay in "Show HN: Halloween game to show off my new Terminal"

veganjay — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:56:34 +0000

This was a lot of fun. Thanks for making and sharing.

The "find" command would be very helpful for the last step (to get the passcode).

I found that you can do "ls 0/0/0/0 0/0/0/1 ..."

So I wrote a python program to print out the ls command that shows all directory contents :)

New comment by veganjay in "Sedmario: NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed (2015)"

veganjay — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:21:54 +0000

Someone made a homebrew of Super Mario Bros for the Atari 2600:

- https://forums.atariage.com/topic/201426-super-mario-clone-w...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSO-UTdCI8