Hacker News: zorked

New comment by zorked in "The Cypherpunk Library"

zorked — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:48 +0000

  "non-fiction tells it how it happened"

oh sweet summer child :)

New comment by zorked in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

zorked — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:00:49 +0000

"He was one of the founders of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), which has governed the country continuously since independence"

Very democratic country.

New comment by zorked in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

zorked — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:19:16 +0000

The way how you manage the caps in OpenRouter is how every metered API provider should do it: keys have limits, and you can change the limits, and you set the limits to refill periodically, and you can create as many keys as you want.

New comment by zorked in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

zorked — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:35:38 +0000

Not anymore than the US being able to strike worldwide to this very moment. They are the only country that has used nuclear bombs against civilians.

The big problem is having one country be able to do it without deterrents and with impunity. MAD is a good thing, if anyone will have those things at all.

New comment by zorked in "Googlebook"

zorked — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:40:02 +0000

I am old enough to remember that iPad was supposed to be a product-line-dooming bad name.

New comment by zorked in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

zorked — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:11:44 +0000

Your comment is absolute nonsense.

New comment by zorked in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

zorked — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:48:16 +0000

If there are extremely poor, high-trust societies, then trust is its own variable. If not, then it's a post-hoc explanation.

New comment by zorked in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

zorked — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:01:33 +0000

I use Kimi at home via a kimi.com subscription and Kimi CLI (sometimes running inside Zed, sometimes not). My favorite model by far. And it's just $20.

I have to use a supposedly frontier model at work and I hate it.

New comment by zorked in "NetHack 5.0.0"

zorked — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:35:50 +0000

Nethack runs as a setgid process that hides save files from users.

Kind of old fashioned now that almost every Unix system is a single user system. There are still public servers for those that want the temptation to be taken away from them.

As to spoilers... Everybody reads the spoilers. I doubt anyone has ever ascended spoiler-free.

New comment by zorked in "NetHack 5.0.0"

zorked — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:42:24 +0000

First impression: it has a tutorial, which should actually help increase the player base quite a bit.

It comes with some movement quality of life (e.g. moving into a door opens it, moving into an obviously dangerous thing requires confirmation).

If you enable the option, there's color coding of health (green -> full), burden level, and states like poisoning, which I think is new too.

You can filter out messages like "you have displaced your pet".

New comment by zorked in "Ask.com has closed"

zorked — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:27:18 +0000

It is absolutely insane to say that Altavista was better than Google though.

New comment by zorked in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

zorked — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:05:39 +0000

Interesting Cuecat story: LibraryThing bought a massive stock of Cuecats and, 20 years later, they still sell them, repurposed to scan ISBNs from books for cataloging purposes: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/CueCat_Guide

New comment by zorked in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

zorked — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:50:41 +0000

> you can’t successfully monetize

this wasn't the goal of modding.

New comment by zorked in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

zorked — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:30:30 +0000

Don't publish. You already notified them, your shell escape isn't a big deal, publishing it will only be a pain for the volunteers running the service.

New comment by zorked in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

zorked — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:35:18 +0000

I "wrote" (vibe-coded) a non-chronological RSS reader. I crawled the blogrolls of some blogs I liked, fetched all the posts (with full text) and ran a clustering algorithm on them. LLMs classify the content to filter out meta/political/personal posts. And a LLM gives names to the clusters by sampling the contents.

It's an amazing source of long things to read. There is so much stuff worth reading that has been posted in several decades of blogging.

New comment by zorked in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

zorked — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:35:09 +0000

The fleet serving Iran and Russia does not use transponders. It's a large fleet. Ships without transponders are just a fact of life in shipping.

New comment by zorked in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

zorked — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:14:33 +0000

They do support IPv6 but not in every POP, unless something changed.

I have IPv6-only backends and I had to select serving from the main POPs rather than the entire network (which is fine by me as they are also cheaper).

New comment by zorked in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

zorked — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:10:33 +0000

I had trouble explaining to my parents what a BBS was. I wouldn't want to explain what a CDN is.

New comment by zorked in "Agent Reading Test"

zorked — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:53:56 +0000

This is basically RCE but whatever...

12 / 20 points K2.5 under Kimi CLI

New comment by zorked in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

zorked — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:40:09 +0000

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