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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: PG&E site does not function with ad-blockers

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vercel.com 3y ago

Why Turborepo is migrating from Go to Rust

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www.coindesk.com 4y ago

Texas Crypto Miners Shuttering Operations as Winter Storm Approaches

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grist.org 4y ago

Abandoned oil well counts are exploding – now that there’s money on the table

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twitter.com 5y ago

Another “500-mile email” story

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Do you sandbox different uses of your laptop

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Tell HN: USPS informed delivery switched from usps.gov to usps.com

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networkingnerd.net 5y ago

How apple watch unlocks the Mac (2016)

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github.com 6y ago

Show HN: Blackhole – an HTTP sink for testing, record and replay HTTP traffic

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github.com 6y ago

An open source macOS window management app

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twitter.com 6y ago

How does Apple get away with this UI?

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randomascii.wordpress.com 6y ago

O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation

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docs.splunk.com 6y ago

Splunk update fixes a broken regular expression for parsing dates

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www.cnbc.com 6y ago

ServiceNow stock drops as CEO leaves for Nike

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medium.com 6y ago

Story of Universe: Everything So Far Summarized

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Looking for coding challenge platform with a specific use-case

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: How do you teach/introduce programming to your kids

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harikb.github.io 7y ago

Exploring Hash Partitioning in Postgres 11

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Why isn't there a middle man service to do IRL verification.

Like - account is locked, you must use 2FA backup codes.

Else go to western union / 7-eleven / super-market, show ID proof, pay $10 for recovery service.

Wait 2 days (of someone not clicking on this-was-not-me)

If account is already hacked - pay $100 for expert support

It's interesting that it's the universities being ransomed, while the technical failure was Instructure's.

My guess would be they get likelihood of getting paid when blackmailing 9,000 schools (at least a few would pay up) than blackmailing Canvas/Instructure.

I don't think any SLA/terms would change who gets to feel the pain.

Flipdiscs 3 months ago

Is the last photo on that page, describing the cabling, a screenshot of another photo displayed using flipdiscs? that is a whole lot of discs!!

On the credentials point. Here is what I find.

Day 1: Carefully handles the creds, gives me a lecture (without asking) about why .env should be in .gitignore and why I should edit .env and not hand over the creds to it.

Day 2: I ask for a repeat, has lost track of that skill or setting, frantically searches my entire disk, reads .env including many other files, understands that it is holding a token, manually creates curl commands to test the token and then comes back with some result.

It is like it is a security expert on Day 1 and absolute mediocre intern on Day 2

The providers themselves can't keep this straight even within their own ecosystem. Plus everyone is running at a million miles/hour.

For example `Claude code` used to set 2 specific beta headers with some version numbers for their Max subscription to be supported.

Oauth tokens for Max plan is different from how their API keys looked. They kind of look similar, but has specific prefix that these tool pre-validate.

It is barely working at this point even within a single provider

Somewhat unrelated to the language itself:

The compiler bootstraps through 3+ generations of self-compilation.

I guess it applies to any language compiler, but f you are self-hosting, you will naturally release binary packages. Please make sure you have enough support behind the project to setup secure build pipeline. As a user, we will never be able to see something even one nesting-level up.

I struggled with disappearing icons (like our company VPN client - which wasn't tailscale by the way) thinking the app was somehow "stuck". I would go kill the app, restart machine etc - during restart it would get fixed "automatically" by being an app earlier in the order!

Took me months to figure out it was running afterall and just hidden by the notch.

How hard is for apple to move the "least used icons" to a fold? (but still accessible)

I think the point would be that - some random upcoming revision of claude-code could remove or simply change the config name just as silently as it was introduced.

People might genuinely want some other software to do the sandboxing. Something other than the fox.

Unless you have some first hand information that I have, you are more than 10x off.

I refuse to buy Youtube ad free until they drop the price to something $3 or below...

There in lies the problem. Your eye balls (assuming well employed with $$$ disposable income) is another 10x worth to advertisers.

If I were to make a guess, Youtube for sure will lose money at $14/month on your specific browser.

You are literally subsidizing internet for, let us say for arguments sake, some zip code in rural america or <sub any rural part of the world> 's Youtube streaming needs.

1. If alternate UX exists, the user can easily replace them with another model as soon as it comes out.

2. All 'all-you-can-eat' plans everywhere comes with clause. Whether it is lunch at a restaurant or it is token-proxy-providers who might think of reselling Max plan to individuals at 20% markup.

Let the weirdos at Anthropic do what weirdos do, and hopefully one day their name is never mentioned again in polite society.

Woof, that is a bit harsh... :) OpenAI will also face the same problem. They are doing it right now because they need to stand out in some way.

Apart from the mess it caused for iPhone and Mac, my watch upgraded last night to 26 flavor. I am not kidding - I can't see anything on the screen now before coffee. Watch has become completely useless for my early morning eyes.

What they did to Watch is much worse than what they did to iPhone and Mac

Installing an app that silently intercepts SMS/MMS data is a persistent technical compromise. Once the app is there, the attacker has ongoing access.

In contrast, convincing someone to read an OTP over the phone is a one-time manual bypass. To use your logic..

A insalled app - Like a hidden camera in a room.

Social engineering over phone - Like convincing someone to leave the door unlocked once.