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nticompasson A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

> recruiter at a small crypto startup

That's your first red flag right there.

nticompasson Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles

I hate to admit it, but I'm pretty sure that's the same for me, too. Dial-up, NetZero I think. Waiting for images to download...

nticompasson A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent

> There is no single control that solves indirect prompt injection

There is, actually. It's called removing the AI agent. Done.

nticompasson Making Graphics Like it's 1993

I respect the amount of work that goes into projects like this; I can't wait to be able to play it.

nticompasson Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

I learned about this site from the TV show "Going Deep with David Rees" (episode 2)! I recommend that show if you haven't seen it.

nticompasson HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C

I found an HP-12c at Savers for like $2 about 2 years ago! It's a "financial calculator" and I don't really know how to use it :-)

nticompasson Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web

Maybe it's just me, but I hate the word "agentic" so much.

nticompasson Spotify CEO defends AI music, wants you to stop calling it 'slop'

Sorry Spotify, but if it's AI-generated then by [my] definition it's "slop." We - or at least I - don't want AI music, we don't care about your AI. I'm just so tired of hearing about AI and new AI stuff.

Also, one of my friends uses Suno to make "music" and put it on YouTube, and I just don't have the heart to tell him it's "slop" and I've never/won't listen to it.

nticompasson Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore

I meant in general.

For whatever reason, I forgot that Go uses a gopher as its mascot. But like, their PHP books don't use an elephant.

I dunno, I was just curious if the author could pick an animal to be on the cover, or if it wasn't their choice.

nticompasson Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore

I have a small collection of programming/technology books, some from O'Reilly, others from Manning and No Starch Press. I've read them and they have been very helpful, but I will admit that I been buying less books. They take up space, and my shelves are full of these and other books like novels and manga.

Also, now when I am trying to learn a language, I just work on a project and search in the docs (or just on Kagi) to find what I am trying to do. Maybe a physical book would be a quicker reference, and maybe I should buy some more of them.

P.S. I enjoy finding old computer books (like DOS/Win95 era) at the thrift store.

nticompasson Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore

This has nothing to do with the article posted or anything, I was just curious... who gets to pick the animal on the book cover? Do you (the author) get to pick, or does the publisher (O'Reilly) pick?

nticompasson We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

Are we still talking about ads?

nticompasson Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users

That's actually what I thought this submission was. Didn't remember what it was called, so I didn't realize PhotoGIMP wasn't GIMPshop.

nticompasson Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors

Now that's just kooky! Sorry, I had to.

nticompasson Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads

I guess it's been a while since I used those type of sites. I admit that I used to, and I do remember those sites like megaupload or whatever that had a timer.

nticompasson Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads

Fair enough. I do remember using those sites back in the day, and the `.rar.000`, `.rar.001` file lists (or was it `.part1.rar`, `.part2.rar`?). I guess I haven't visited or thought about those sites in a while.

nticompasson Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads

I remember using download managers back in the day, and by "back in the day" I mean dial-up (and maybe early DSL). I liked being able to pause downloads and possibly split them up using multiple connections.

Nowadays, are download managers even needed anymore? At least for me, the internet is fast enough that I don't need a separate download manager, plus browsers support the pausing (and maybe multiple connections?) feature already.

I'm just curious why someone would need to use JDownloader.

EDIT: I hadn't thought about "warez" sites in a while and sites like megaupload where you had to wait for a timer. Those are totally "valid" uses for a downloader like this, thanks.

nticompasson Show HN: Hallucinopedia

https://www.halupedia.com/blink-182

> Blink 182 is a species of subterranean fungus that exhibits a peculiar, rhythmic photoluminescence.

Sounds right to me.

nticompasson Ted Turner has died

Last night on AEW Dynamite [1], Tony Schiavone and Sting had some very nice things to say about Ted Turner. I didn't know he'd died until then. They both talked about how Ted started WCW and how he defended pro wrestling when certain execs wanted to cancel it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXSILHvWe0

nticompasson Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

When I saw "Sun Ray", the first thing to come to my mind was clabretro :)

nticompasson Auto Polo

Can someone add this as a new game mode in Rocket League?

nticompasson Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

I didn't have a PostScript file, so I had to find one. I downloaded the test files from here: http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/postscript.html

Minus the colors, they worked and look pretty good.

nticompasson UnixPC – Why did it fail?

I love my AT&T Unix PC. I picked it up from someone on craigslist in 2018. It's fun to use and to see what computing was like before I was born.

I don't know too much about the machine's history or its place in the market, but to me it's a neat machine.

nticompasson Your hex editor should color-code bytes

I used to use wxHexEditor and that had a feature where I could select a section of the file and highlight it in a color. When I was working to decode a certain file format, I used that to color-code different sections of the file and it was super useful. Those color-codes were stored in a separate file so you could load them back in.

nticompasson Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

This was one of the first - if not the first - CD I bought for myself, using my own (allowance) money! I was probably too young to listen to it, but blink-182 is my favorite band and I listened to this CD so many times that I pretty much memorized all the stupid banter between tracks.

I also liked sharing certain tracks with my friends when they came over...

nticompasson X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

Sorry, but Twitter is only for bots now. Real humans need not log on. /s

That being said, I assume that it flagged the amount/frequency of likes or whatever other activity and thought it was suspicious. Probably used Grok to do that and it obviously isn't good at that.

nticompasson I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

There was a PPC version of Windows NT, and yes someone put it on the Wii!

https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes

nticompasson I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

This is awesome! I can't wait to plug in my Wii and give it a try myself.

nticompasson OpenAI Acquires TBPN

Is TBPN really considered "major" (seeing as most of the comments I've seen are how no one's heard of them before) or are you just being sarcastic?

nticompasson LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

> Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome[actually Chromium]-based browser

There's a reason I continue to use Firefox (with uBlock Origin) and will never switch.

Also, when I got laid off from a previous job, I made a LinkedIn profile to help find a new job. Once I found a new job, I haven't logged into LinkedIn since - that was almost 2 years ago.