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New comment by wingmanjd in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"

wingmanjd — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:24:46 +0000

On a Rubiks cube, the center tile always remains constant. I was surprised at this when I accidentally broke one apart to find a static 3d cross piece to each cube face (e.g. a non-moving tile). Everything else rotates around it

New comment by wingmanjd in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

wingmanjd — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:24:54 +0000

Thanks for pointing out ReManager. After moving to the Move, I've sorely missed my handful of toltec packages (koreader, etc.).

New comment by wingmanjd in "Making difficulty curves in games"

wingmanjd — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:10:37 +0000

Left 4 Dead handled this pretty well in my opinion (i.e. mob spawning behind if you're playing too slowly or a tank in front if you're going too quick). I absolutely hated the dynamic adjusting in games like Mario Kart, though.

New comment by wingmanjd in "Shinjuku Station in 3D"

wingmanjd — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:28:46 +0000

Or Descent. Pity the fool who hits the map key mid-multiplayer fight.

New comment by wingmanjd in "Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray"

wingmanjd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:40:59 +0000

This short story was scarier to me as a kid than anything else I read at the time.

New comment by wingmanjd in "Show HN: I scanned 87 MCP servers for agent-authority hygiene – leaderboard"

wingmanjd — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:20:07 +0000

I couldn't toggle any filter earlier. Now I'm able to :shrug:

New comment by wingmanjd in "Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus"

wingmanjd — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:59:08 +0000

It's something very new (I think as of the 9.2 version?). I haven't tried it because I don't have quite the need to let it do it's own thing yet.

New comment by wingmanjd in "Show HN: I scanned 87 MCP servers for agent-authority hygiene – leaderboard"

wingmanjd — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:57:25 +0000

None of the filtering is working for me. Same with search.

kubuntu26.04 Tried in latest Firefox and latest Chromium

New comment by wingmanjd in "Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus"

wingmanjd — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:08:39 +0000

At $DAYJOB, we use the Telmate terraform proxmox provider, too. Upgrades over the years have had a few papercuts (mainly when values are shifted around), but it has overall been an immense timesaver. A terraform repo contains the 2 colocation datacenter proxmox environments plus a local lab edition of the same builds (locallab uses containers vs full VM's on the "real" hardware so that I can run almost all of the configuration on my laptop). Saltstack gets deployed during the buildouts, which picks up the OS/ application configuration after the OS is deployed.

No agentic stuff on our stack, as our security posture can't afford that currently.

As for the load-balancing, I think the later versions have supported targeting proxmox clusters vs a single node, and the newest Proxmox can do resource auto-balancing. That might get you what you need

New comment by wingmanjd in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

wingmanjd — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:23:10 +0000

Ha, a Wikipedia article link to Zenzizenzizenzic was on HN earlier today! I don't think I would have gotten that one right otherwise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603664

New comment by wingmanjd in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

wingmanjd — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:21:06 +0000

Speaking of modules that lie about themselves, unifi has an interesting little device called the "SFP Wizard" that can reprogram sfp modules.

https://www.ui.com/us/en/integrations/accessory-tech/sfp-wiz...

Previously seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732874

New comment by wingmanjd in "L'Affaire Siloxane"

wingmanjd — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:36:37 +0000

This is the first time hearing the term "kilobucks". I love it (and am stealing it for future conversations).

New comment by wingmanjd in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

wingmanjd — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:09:40 +0000

My Framework 13 also has this option for some reason, even though my ctrl key is on the outside

Markdown Tables Generator – Tablesgenerator.com

wingmanjd — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349530

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by wingmanjd in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

wingmanjd — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:20:45 +0000

If you're not opposed to card games, Five Crowns [1] is a house staple in both sides of my family. It will require multiple people.

Sagrada [2] is a fun game as well. Can be played solo, but I find it more fun with others.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1472/five-crowns [2] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/199561/sagrada

Modulejail: Shrink a Linux kernel-module attack surface by blacklisting modules

wingmanjd — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:51:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jnuyens/modulejail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179917

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wingmanjd in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

wingmanjd — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:16:51 +0000

Mine was on a similar game, GORILLA.BAS. I would edit the banana code for a much bigger explosion. Lots of fun back in computer class!

New comment by wingmanjd in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

wingmanjd — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:33:30 +0000

Crowdstrike gave a little talk recently about how prompts pressuring with laws (fake or real) and legal-ese can do similar things.

New comment by wingmanjd in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

wingmanjd — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:38:30 +0000

I made this a while back to move us off our on-prem Atlassian to Gitlab [1]. Maybe it'll help someone if they want something similar. Fair warning: I haven't tried this recently, so YMMV.

[1] https://gitlab.com/jeremygonyea/jira-to-gitlab-migration-too...

New comment by wingmanjd in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

wingmanjd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:32:19 +0000

Microsoft lost my 80yr old aunt and my two under teenager kids. My last hold-out at home is my son's laptop, which he needed Windows for a proctered exam (now completed). He's excited to soon be on the same OS as his other family members.