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wildlogicon Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

joey, is that you!?

wildlogicon Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024)

you are absolutely right, it is motion-sickness inducing. how did this make it in to production?

wildlogicon Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

This is a reference I think to the Charlie Kirk murder.

I learned this trick writing shellcode - the shellcode has to be null byte (0x00) free, or it will terminate and not progress past the null byte, since it is the string terminator. of course, when you xor something with itself, the result is zero. the byte code generated by the instruction xor eax, eax doesn't contain null bytes, whereas mov eax, 0 does.

wildlogicon Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

Thanks for the feedback. I'll give this a try.

wildlogicon Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

Hey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.

wildlogicon The Science of a Kundalini Awakening

My kundalini awakened when I fell 20 feet onto a 3 inch PVC pipe in more or less a seated position and got impaled - it smashed right up through my tailbone, sacrum, and spinal vertebrae, severed a ton of nerves, and whatever energy was coiled up in the base of my spine shot straight up out the top of my head!

wildlogicon I Made a Puzzle Game

The levels are in order of difficulty per grid size, sorted by the number of backtracks it took a solver to complete (some of the harder levels on the biggest sizes took hundreds of thousands of backtracks, though I didn't really code any heuristics).

wildlogicon I Made a Puzzle Game

Gameplay is on a grid from 5x5 to 12x12 in size. Each level has a number of "depots", from which the player lays section of "pipe" to Von Neumann neighboring tiles. Pipes cannot cross each other, and a tile cannot have more than 1 pipe. Pipes cannot be placed on depots. Click a depot to "activate" it, and then place the pipes from that depot. There are 3 ways of placing pipes - clicking on the adjacent square, dragging through adjacent squares, or clicking several tiles away in a straight line from a placed pipe or activated depot to lay pipe on each tile in the line.

Thanks for giving it a try - I would appreciate any feedback!

wildlogicon Show HN: Koro-koro – a pathing puzzle game

Sorry, I'll add some instructions, the game is to lay pipes from the depots to fill the entire grid.

wildlogicon Show HN: Koro-koro – a pathing puzzle game

Ah, its a bug, thanks for pointing that out (you should be able to path to a square that was previously pathed but is currently empty), working on it now.

Yes, in this game you lay "pipes" from "depots", and must fill the entire grid with pipes.

Thanks for the feedback, adding some text with the basic rules now.

I initially had the first "tutorial" level a 4x4 grid with a [3] in each corner, but the 4x4 levels were trivial and I removed them.

wildlogicon Show HN: Koro-koro – a pathing puzzle game

Not doing so well lately, but I managed to hack out this little puzzle game. I've spent a lot of time thinking about simple games appealing to a wide audience that can be played with no more than paper and pencil, and haven't come up with that many great ideas, but I think this one checks out. Feedback welcome! Not that I think I can sell this to the NYT for their puzzle section, but interested in ideas monetizing this outside of adwords. Thanks for looking.

wildlogicon Every V4 UUID

b00bb00b-b00b-4444-b00b-b00bb00bb00b

wildlogicon Show HN: Kameo – Fault-tolerant async actors built on Tokio

Hi - any documentation regarding actor registration? Is there a conventional way to inform a remote actor about a new actor? Would this be sent in a message? How does the actor.register('name') work? Maybe could be a useful addition to the documentation. Thanks.

wildlogicon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)

  Location:WA,US
  Remote: YES
  WTR: NO
  Tech: Expert Build/Release Automation
  Resume: NVIDIA, Moody's, Oracle, LEGO
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/frohbieter
  Last 2 companies sold for 2.5b and 2b
  Email: digiphilo at gmail dot com

wildlogicon [dead]

Hey HN, hoping to get some traction o my home mushroom growing kit.. thanks!

wildlogicon Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

Wow, been lurking for 12! Feels like a few lifetimes... Getting old... Thanks for everything.

wildlogicon I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

FBI file here also for hacking in middle school... later added onto for messing around making tesla coils and mixing up rocket fuel.

wildlogicon Show HN: Grams.io – calculate how long drug(s) stay in body

Looks good, half-life builtins would be great, thanks for sharing.

wildlogicon SSH Agent Restriction (new in OpenSSH 8.9)

yes.

wildlogicon Man can change his pupil size on command

This is a random tangent, but if are visually impaired and you look through a pinhole in your hand, you can see clearly!

wildlogicon Apollo 68080 – Motorola 680x0 High Performance Processor in FPGA

I almost used Coldfire last year for a life-critical application.

wildlogicon Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication (2015)

Realy wild to me that horse and zebra are so different that one can be domesticated and the other cannot.

wildlogicon Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands

I know for sure this is possible because I helped build it (embarassingly, I'm working on being a jeweler now).

wildlogicon Human-like neural network chess engine trained on lichess games

yeah, these days you can tune into a twitch stream and grab some top grandmaster games any day of the week

wildlogicon Show HN: API wrapper for NY Times Covid-19 data

please let me know if you see any issues!

wildlogicon Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same type

same goes with python -

  def foo(x=None, y=None):
    ...

  foo(x=1, y=2)
  foo(1, y=2)
  foo(1, 2)

wildlogicon Ask HN: What’s Your Net Worth?

If you have 2 million net, why not pay off the mortgage?

wildlogicon How judges added to the grim toll of opioids

Yeah, I have had two of these and two laser lithotripsies.

wildlogicon How judges added to the grim toll of opioids

I sure know, I have chronic kidney stones and voted to legalize it in my state. It provides a great deal of pain relief for me. I utilize opiates for the most extreme cases of pain.