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Re:Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @11:12PM (#48130668)
Re:Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old c...
on Thursday July 17, 2025 @05:18PM (#44598340)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_N
"Nickname for Nintendo"
I remember it being frequently used as far back as the 80s by Electronic Gaming Monthly
Re:Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:27AM (#43009298)
I see "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" when zoomed in all the way. "Gulf of America" when zoomed out.
Meta Acknowledges 'Software Update Issue' Affecting Quest 2, 3 and 3S
Re:Veo 2: Our video generation model
on Monday December 16, 2024 @07:22PM (#42437035)
This is a first step towards "the holodeck". You describe a scene and it exists. Imagine you could jump in and interact with it. That seems like something that could happen in 10-20 years.
Re:PEP 750: Tag Strings for Writing Domain-Specific Languages
on Sunday August 11, 2024 @03:46AM (#41214605)
Does this mean I can write a print function and be able to print"hello world" without parentheses again, like in python 2.x ?
Re:Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:48PM (#40277337)
https://www.ztree.com/
a clone of the old DOS Xtree. Quite the learning curve, but very powerful.
Re:Apple reports second quarter results
on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:28PM (#40241551)
"Apple announced that its board had authorized $110 billion in share repurchases, a 22% increase over last year’s $90 billion authorization. It’s the largest in history, ahead of Apple’s previous repurchases, according to data from Birinyi Associates." - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/02/apple-aapl-earnings-report-q...
Re:The 'Unthinkable' New Reality About Bedbugs
on Saturday February 10, 2024 @05:53PM (#39330976)
Does the heat treatment damage electronics? Can you leave your computers in the house while your house is baking?
Re:The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd
on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:39PM (#39111563)
If "the singularity" is a real thing that can happen, it seems like there is an incentive for species that fear "the singularity" to preemptively wipe out any civilizations they find which seem close to achieving AGI
SEC blames 'SIM swap' attack for compromising X account ahead of ETF approval
Re:High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98
on Monday January 15, 2024 @07:16PM (#39007815)
How good is error handling on USB 4? The rare times I've had data corruption it was almost always when transferring lots of data using USB (this happened to me on multiple drives, computers, usb ports or cables. this was in the early USB 3 days)
Re:DEF Con 31s Predicament – NSPredicate Exploitation on macOS and iOS
on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:08PM (#38829477)
Video's description : "Sep 15, 2023 -- In 2021 the FORCEDENTRY sandbox escape introduced the usage of NSPredicate in an iOS exploit. This new technique allowed attackers to sidestep codesigning, ASLR, and all other mitigations to execute arbitrary code on Apple devices. As a result, Apple put in place new restrictions to make NSPredicate less powerful and less useful for exploits. This presentation will cover new research showing that these added restrictions could be completely circumvented in iOS 16, and how NSPredicates could be exploited to gain code execution in many privileged iOS processes. This technical deep dive will be a rare instance of iOS security that anyone can comprehend without years of experience."
Re:Bad Apple as MS-DOS Escape Sequences
on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:18PM (#38787490)
As a kid I always admired AVATAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Termi... ) and wondered why more people didn't use it for art. It was far more efficient. I'd use it wherever I could, and it would feel like my modem got a 2x speed boost. But I'd never seen any BBS software convert ANSI art into AVATAR on the fly...
Also, displaying ANSI with ANSI.SYS was completely unsafe, as there were codes to redefine keyboard input (i.e. turn F1 into Format C:)
Re:Raspberry Pi 5: available now
on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:46PM (#37994676)
The first Pi (2012 release) was $35, this release is, when inflation adjusted to 2012 dollars, $44. So in the same ballpark-ish
Re:The Ur-Quan Masters: The Open Source Remake of Star Control II
on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:34PM (#37934422)
I am sad because Paul Reiche III has left the project, though it seems he did write a story before leaving --
https://pistolshrimpgames.com/2023/09/uqm2-update-summer-202...
From Fred:
"Well, after 30+ years working with Paul, I would never speak for him, but he got to a point where his focus was fractured and he couldn't do justice to any of his competing interests. He stuck it out with us long enough to deliver the story/worldbuilding side and now, as always, he's trusting me and the rest of us to bring it home. Will he be able to return? Unknown. Is he still my best friend? For sure."
https://old.reddit.com/r/uqm2/comments/16h50qp/uqm2_update_s...
Re:Forty Years of Programming
on Sunday October 08, 2023 @08:13PM (#37815595)
I've been using computers since I was a pre-teen, it wrecked both my forearms (and later, my neck) in my early 30's. There was NO WARNING, the issues just happened out of nowhere. I always thought RSI, if it happened to me, would happen gradually and I'd know to stop/rest. The neck stuff has taken a decade to heal and it's still not back to normal.
Re:Play Leisure Suit Larry free in DOS running in browser
on Friday October 06, 2023 @02:31AM (#37787738)
Al Lowe (the game's author) is still kickin'!
https://twitter.com/allowe/
https://allowe.com/
Re:Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025
on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:32PM (#37785094)
Re: #2 - The UEFI bloatware/rootkit checked the Windows version: if you used Windows 8 or up it used the "feature" called "Windows Platform Binary Table", but Windows 7 didn't have that, so for Windows 7 it overwrote CHKDSK.EXE with a Lenovo loader on every reboot. So, yeah, they were overwriting OS binaries on disk, not just relying on WPBT. (But no reports of binaries being overwritten on on Linux)
Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?
Re:Large Language Models: Scaling Laws and Emergent Properties
on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:18PM (#35647830)
This space is moving so fast my jaw drops every time I read something about it. For example this line:
"... has discovered empirically that the capability for moral self-correction emerges at around 22B parameters. For more scientific details, the paper is here. [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.07459.pdf]"
Re:Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a...
on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:01PM (#35393605)
I remember watching one of the final episodes of Connections 3: With James Burke, and he casually said we'd have personal assistants that we could talk to (in our PDAs). That was 1997 and I knew enough about computers to think he was being overly optimistic about the speed of progress. Not in our lifetimes. Guess I was wrong!
Re:How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K
on Saturday March 11, 2023 @10:13PM (#35116100)
This is not about ACH. It's about ACATS:
Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned
on Sunday January 01, 2023 @07:25PM (#34212739)
He also lost a lot of Bitcoins on the Mt Gox hack b/c he thought it would be safe. He's just one person and I wouldn't draw any big conclusions about it. (One person who has been a massive target for something like this for many years, I would add)
Re:The Box of Now and Forever: three decades of memories
on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:50PM (#33806597)
There is an "Official 30th Anniversary Celebration" of Star Control 2 with the game's creators, today at 4pm EST at https://twitch.tv/x33n
The Box of Now and Forever: three decades of memories
Re:Sugar Substitutes Surprise
on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:14PM (#33454206)
Interesting!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Glucose
Re:Memtest86 v6.00 with UEFI support released
on Monday October 24, 2022 @04:53PM (#33322561)
This was 10+ years ago, but I had an issue with my motherboard not liking my RAM when in dual channel mode that memtest/memtest+ could not find, but Windows Memory Diagnostic (advanced tests) did find. So it's worth running both if you are ever stumped.
Re:Ask HN: Why does the media say inflation is up every month?
on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:03PM (#33192870)
If anyone is curious, here are the numbers:
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0
Last 4 months have stayed steady-ish at 296