Hacker News: zymhan

New comment by zymhan in "I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

zymhan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:53:40 +0000

That was it, I knew someone ported an OS to a Wii recently, thank you

New comment by zymhan in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

zymhan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:56:34 +0000

You probably should not be living in a city then.

New comment by zymhan in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

zymhan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:09:22 +0000

We get it, you like Nix

New comment by zymhan in "Is BGP safe yet?"

zymhan — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:16:14 +0000

Those two things address orthogonal issues

New comment by zymhan in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

zymhan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:20:45 +0000

Oof, I honestly hadn't considered that.

New comment by zymhan in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

zymhan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:57:22 +0000

Installing 3rd party packages the way Node and Python devs do regularly _is_ a security hole.

New comment by zymhan in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

zymhan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:56:20 +0000

> They are going to be out of date whenever a standard changes (HTML, etc.)

You might want to elaborate on the "etc.", since HTML updates are glacial.

New comment by zymhan in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

zymhan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:27:27 +0000

Yeah, this site has been posted a few times recently, and there is something just very odd about the site design and the writing.

For example, this post seems unhinged at best: https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-ve...

New comment by zymhan in "How to turn anything into a router"

zymhan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:24:13 +0000

As others stated, installing software can change the state of your firewall configuration, or start a service listening on 0.0.0.0:8080 for example.

New comment by zymhan in "How to turn anything into a router"

zymhan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:22:04 +0000

If you're okay with used, I got an "industrial" mini PC with loads of connectivity for maybe $125? https://support.onlogic.com/product-documentation/industrial... And there are plenty of configurations at lower prices, as well as many other manufacturers in this space.

New comment by zymhan in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

zymhan — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:38:17 +0000

Yeah there is something suspicious about this site.

New comment by zymhan in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

zymhan — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:21 +0000

> I came away thinking if those were presented as affiliated links, that conversation could have been monetized in a mutually beneficial way.

Have you considered a world where the ideal outcome _doesn't_ involve making the most money?

New comment by zymhan in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

zymhan — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:26:45 +0000

There are far better examples they could use.

New comment by zymhan in "“This is not the computer for you”"

zymhan — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:15:01 +0000

You perfectly encapsulated how I felt as a kid pushing my computer to its limit just to learn and try new things. I didn't have a Mac, but the experience was identical.

New comment by zymhan in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

zymhan — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:23:20 +0000

What a ridiculous idea, I love it.

New comment by zymhan in "We Will Not Be Divided"

zymhan — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:28:55 +0000

Well that's quite a leap to make. Plenty of room in between those options.

New comment by zymhan in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

zymhan — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:17:38 +0000

Editing what is billed as an archive defeats the purpose of an "archive".

New comment by zymhan in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

zymhan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:06:05 +0000

A comment above yours clearly explains why:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034480

New comment by zymhan in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

zymhan — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:51:01 +0000

I'm fairly certain the radio time signal has a mechanism to convey daylight savings, I've had alarm clocks that managed DST without any input.

> The DST status bits indicate United States daylight saving time rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB

New comment by zymhan in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

zymhan — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:38:58 +0000

Yes