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The bus ticket theory of genius (2019)
- slyall 3y agoIs this really pg's site? " Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for paulgraham.com. "
- Kikawala 3y agoWorks if http instead of https. http://paulgraham.com/genius.html http://paulgraham.com/genius.html
- wsinks 3y agoIt still works if https, but the website appropriately tells you that the website 'isn't secure' because there's a certificate out of date. Using http is fine because you're just trying to access a webpage and not do any sort of transactions, but not really a good general practice to do to just make things 'work'.
- dasyatidprime 3y agoYes, but it doesn't support HTTPS (properly).
- wsinks 3y agoYeah, looks like 'trustify' is potentially his hosting platform and something's wrong with the certificates. If it isn't his site and is just a complete 1:1 replica, I'm not sure what that would achieve except mess up his analytics, which could be the case. Or maybe someone's trying to inject malware into our computers through it? Hmm I tried to go through a link he posted and through google, and they all result in the same untrusted certificate. I would guess just don't put your billing details into his site (joking, I don't think he has anything like that on there)
- tyronehed 3y ago[dead]
- dang 3y agoDiscussed at the time: The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21613357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21613357 - Nov 2019 (477 comments)