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hiccuphippo··on Psalm 7 release: PHP security&static analysis software
Why not skip the php and write rust directly?
hiccuphippo··on What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
> classic goodies such as systemd

I feel old.

hiccuphippo··on Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser
I think the most nefarious thing they can do with this is use it to further fingerprint your browser.

Oops, meant to reply to the GP.

hiccuphippo··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
But why do they need to be in the open internet? Can't they be put in a VPN?
hiccuphippo··on Libghostty 1.0
Aren't those the same?
hiccuphippo··on Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
I get to tell my manager it's github's fault.
hiccuphippo··on OccupySaaS
Isn't AI output already public domain?
hiccuphippo··on GitLab's new 60 req/HR rate limit has a fatal flaw: It blocks the login page
As in, anyone can block you from logging in for an hour by loading the login page 60 times?
hiccuphippo··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Probably because they don't want other businesses to lobby against them. They could have written the photoshop clone themselves, then Adobe would be after them. Better for them to sell the tokens and let others take the fall.
hiccuphippo··on Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro
Very cool. Doesn't seem like the best way to play Mario but it would be awesome for games like Fire Emblem or Civilization.
hiccuphippo··on People sick of being spied on by their smart TV
Why Apple specifically? You can disconnect any TV from the Internet, or never connnect them in the first place.
hiccuphippo··on US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership
If you own it then it becomes inheritable.
hiccuphippo··on Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.

The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to.

hiccuphippo··on Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
Maths are just maths again!

Enough with patents, NDAs and trade secrets.

hiccuphippo··on Fingerprints are the new cookies
I wonder how many websites use that header as part of their fingerprint mechanism.
hiccuphippo··on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
If the code is in a completely different language, what can Adobe do it's not gonna be copyright infringement? Derived work if the algorithm is the same? But at that point it's math.

I guess they can always sue over infringed patents?

hiccuphippo··on Triple-A Minesweeper
It really does need a store with skins, several kinds of currencies, and loot boxes!
hiccuphippo··on Triple-A Minesweeper
We need a day-1 patch to align the mines to the center of their tile.
hiccuphippo··on Orkut.com
Another social media site owned by a giant corporation? Please no.

Why not build it as a non-profit foundation who's interests align with the users not the shareholders?

hiccuphippo··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Does that matter when it can clone it today without the need to train on your specific code?
hiccuphippo··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
I wonder if it's injecting both through javascript to minimize breaking people's tests. Trying to reduce dealing with non-ascii characters and svg tags.
hiccuphippo··on How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods?
You could report it to the domain registrar and the payment gateways.
hiccuphippo··on I said no and Apple said yes
Maybe we should come up with a new definition for that because bricked definitely means unrecoverable.
hiccuphippo··on English: A vs. An
So is it "a historic" or "an historic"? I've heard Stephen Colbert use "an historic" with a non-silent H.
hiccuphippo··on Comparing reflection capabilities of C++, Zig and C3
If it's for debugging purposes, you can use `{any}` as the format and it will print `.BLUE`

  std.debug.print("{any}\n", .{color});
hiccuphippo··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Exactly the video I was expecting it to be. Same herd.
hiccuphippo··on Don't Just Say Hello
"Don't ask to ask, just ask"
hiccuphippo··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
Yes, but also Wordpress still exists and keeps the old ways of doing things.
hiccuphippo··on Show HN: Hacker News, but only AI news
For the complete opposite I saw this in a comment earlier: https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai
hiccuphippo··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
> other two famous Handmade languages

Jai and... C3? FilC?

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