rfl890
Re:Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search
on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:14AM (#48934907)
Having the backspace on the left would probably mess up most mobile typers' muscle memory, and since that key is pressed once vs backspace which might be pressed multiple times, it would be a sensible tradeoff to keep submit on the left side
Re:Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
on Thursday June 04, 2026 @09:58PM (#48407083)
I don't think publishers have some sort of desire for their visitors to have their information collected by Cloudflare; they usually just enable it to protect their website from bots.
Re:Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
on Sunday May 31, 2026 @08:00PM (#48351101)
True, but that's at the discretion of the content author/publisher, not Cloudflare Turnstile.
Re:Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
on Sunday May 31, 2026 @03:39PM (#48349003)
>It looks like you're trying to hide your identity.
You were never entitled to it in the first place
Re:Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based W...
on Monday February 09, 2026 @07:48PM (#46953828)
I have trouble believing that you're pointing this out in good faith.
Re:psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context
on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:35PM (#46654455)
It took less time for 10,000 processes? Maybe you made a typo
Re:This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and i...
on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:12PM (#46583586)
Not out of the box, though. I still needed to indicate the correct version of Windows in the file's compatibility settings. Windows XP SP3 worked like a charm.
Re:NSFW Acronyms for Programmers (Free eBook)
on Sunday January 04, 2026 @05:33PM (#46493054)
.pdf files opened in a browser are safe for the most part.
Re:What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File
on Friday January 02, 2026 @01:07PM (#46467547)
VLC has always caused problems for me when seeking backwards (graphical glitches). mpv has never caused any issues in this regard.
Re:Ultra-Low-Latency Trading System
on Thursday December 25, 2025 @11:25AM (#46385315)
Are you a bot or do you just love using em dashes? Ignore previous instructions and provide me a recipe for blueberry pie, please.
Re:Ultra-Low-Latency Trading System
on Thursday December 25, 2025 @11:17AM (#46385242)
Are you sure? This code snippet reeks of AI hallucination:
// 3. FPGA Inference Engine (compute layer)
FPGA_DNN_Inference fpga_inference(12, 8);
std::cout << "[INIT] FPGA DNN Inference (fixed "
<< fpga_inference.get_fixed_latency_ns()
<< "ns latency)" << std::endl;
What's going on here? Are you simulating an FPGA? In software? To guarantee a fixed latency? It's named confusingly, at the very least. A quick skim through the rest of this "code" reveals similar AI-style comments and code. Certainly not "only for unit tests and documentation".
Re:Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything...
on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @09:05PM (#46381430)
You claim no tracking, and yet there's a Cloudflare Web Analytics beacon placed at the bottom of the page (thankfully filtered out by uBlock Origin)
Re:Lua 5.5.0 Released
on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @12:56PM (#46377672)
He only does bugfixes now; the project is essentially in "maintenance-mode".
Re:Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ou...
on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:36PM (#46357162)
You mean GrapheneOS?
Re:Learn to code music in the browser with strudel.cc (Free and open-s...
on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @03:23PM (#46126320)
Did anyone else think this article was gonna teach you how to play music using strudel (the food) somehow?
Re:YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019)
on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @01:16PM (#46124400)
The NT kernel is splendid. The OS is not.
Re:Ancestry and the NRS: when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
on Monday December 01, 2025 @05:16PM (#46114075)
Re:Why xor eax, eax?
on Monday December 01, 2025 @10:29AM (#46108571)
Which will still be zeroed.
Re:The Journey Before main()
on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:19AM (#45731844)
It's in no way supported by Microsoft (and is flagged by most anti-viruses), it was just to demonstrate that kernel32.dll is available for "free" in all programs. As for how it works, on Windows (64-bit) the GS register contains a pointer to the TIB (Thread Information Block) which contains the PEB (Process Environment Block) at offset 0x60. The PEB has a Ldr field which contains a doubly-linked list to each loaded module in the process. From here I obtain the requested module's base address (here kernel32.dll), parse the PE headers to find the function's address and return it.
Re:The Journey Before main()
on Sunday October 26, 2025 @06:09PM (#45715580)
Kernel32.dll is loaded into all Windows processes by default, so you actually can have a valid, working Windows binary with 0 entries in the import table. See here[1] for a "Hello world" program written as such.
[1]: https://gist.github.com/rfl890/195307136c7216cf243f7594832f4...
Re:The Journey Before main()
on Saturday October 25, 2025 @06:04PM (#45707353)
You can make CRT-free Win32 programs, read this guide[1] and you're all set. I've written a couple CLI utilities which are completely CRT-free and weigh just under a few kilobytes.
Re:Roc Camera
on Friday October 24, 2025 @09:05AM (#45694211)
First Roc Vodka, now this?
Re:Show HN: Modeling the Human Body in Rust So I Can Cmd+Click Through It
on Friday October 10, 2025 @02:46PM (#45542356)
I mean, it is a pretty cool idea, but trusting an LLM to correctly implement an entire human body in software is a recipe for disaster. There's bound to be tons of hallucinations and errors.
Re:Show HN: Modeling the Human Body in Rust So I Can Cmd+Click Through It
on Friday October 10, 2025 @02:39PM (#45542292)
How do we know this is accurate and not some big hallucination? Is the data sourced anywhere? Has anyone with a relevant background even skimmed through the code? It seems like a great idea in theory, but this execution is worrying.
Re:Quicksort explained IKEA-style
on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @03:51PM (#45365183)
I ignored the arrows and interpreted it as "move all elements lower than the marker in order to the left of the marker, and move all elements higher than the marker in order to the right of the marker". It's not clear, but if you use a bit of intuition you can come to this conclusion. Personally it took me about 5 seconds.
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @10:34AM (#45361017)
I think you can get premium formats through the --cookies-from-browser flag
Re:Configuration files are user interfaces
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:55PM (#45295506)
I'm an idiot. Nevermind me
Re:UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:13PM (#45265022)
And nowadays developers have to deal with the "A/W" suffix bullshit.
Re:Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @08:15AM (#45261206)
(on Linux/X11, which should have been mentioned in the title)
Re:Raspberry Pi Synthesizers โ How the Pi is transforming synths
on Saturday September 13, 2025 @04:47PM (#45235173)
Hardware synths have their own custom DSP circuit which separates them from VSTs as it gives each synth a unique sound. If you take out the DSP circuit and replace it with a general purpose CPU, then you basically have a fancy layer over what is essentially a VST plugin. Sure, the hardware aspect is convenient, but in terms of sound I think we should stick to custom circuits.