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Just looked this up for myself and it's indeed partially correct (mostly webp, jpg, png, etc though).

You left out an important part which is that they're proxying these requests through their own servers to avoid the source being found.

This way they could be placing the files on servers that actually require some sort of authentication such as a login page and once that's done the sky is their limit as you could even be hosting files on Discord and it would be very difficult to find the source.

User -> Pirate proxy server -> Github (or some other site)

Why disparage a useful feature by saying people should just settle for an inconvenient solution and search pages of HN titles?

The reason being that I'm against oversimplification and I believe it dumbs the community down. The beauty of HN for me is how primitive and free from clutter it is so that I can focus on the content.

This is a news site. Why would you expect the people arriving to already know the news they came to learn?

I'm not, you can simply find the answer by going through the first few pages, I just don't believe an effort needs to be made to make it easier than that.

I don't think that would be an issue as people would get used to it, but it shouldn't be needed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39065835).

Technically it's very easy to add the black bar as it's already added manually and all that would be needed is to add a "data-id=" which would contain the news ID and a regular "id" to the black bar's "<td>" and once clicked it would send you to "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=[DATA-ID]" (perhaps also add "cursor: pointer" to the CSS as well to change the cursor when its hovered).

Again, this is trivial and can be done with minimal work, but it should not be needed at all.

I don't think this is needed as it's very obvious who it's dedicated to. If you don't know about the event, then all you need to do is to literally just go through the first two pages (probably just as you would when you're visiting the site which is why you cam in the first place) and you will see it mentioned.

I personally don't think there's a need for this as this is not Reddit and the average user should be able to figure this out on their own.

RIP Dave Mills!

I don't think they implement that into the cars as developers have to consider that a car may be unused for a longer time and perhaps even be completely discharged.

I think this would be the best approach for you as you would get all the advantages of having a new car while still remaining "off-the-grid" as long as you don't bring your phone with you.

Have you considered purchasing a newer car that you can modify?

I would assume that it would be trivial to just remove the antenna for the mobile data and once that's gone then 1, 2 and 3.

As for the touchscreens you always have buttons on the steering wheel so you will have to be content with that.

That makes absolutely no sense. The advertisers can't advertise to Albanian so they can't pay for neither impressions nor clicks.

If you mean that the goal of this is to attract advertisers by seeing a larger view count, then that doesn't make any sense either as I don't think there's any doubt among advertisers that YouTube is the leading video platform online.

I tried 3-4 sites and they all seem to be working well. The only advice I can come with is that you should add some instructions or maybe change the text of the bookmarklet as I first thought it was a button.