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by altairprime 5d ago
> We found a remote access implant hidden inside [email protected] , an npm package that copies the popular mathjs library. The NPM package not named in the clickbait-y post title is “mathmain@1.0.0”, for those who run into this parti
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by altairprime 5d ago
Works perfectly fine in Crossover. Enable Hires in a bottle, Configure Wine to 217ppi under Display tab, copy Stars-x86.exe to C:/Prog(x86)/Stars/, simulate reboot, wait a minute for Crossover to rescan, double-click Stars-x8
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by altairprime 7d ago
Such bafflement is often a medium-strength signal of the Bystander Effect. If someone wrote and submitted to HN your own blog post comparing the Zig/Rust examples from this article to ones from V, I’d read it in its entirety knowing no
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by altairprime 7d ago
302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764037
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by altairprime 7d ago
Yes, and more: for example, Amazon and FedEx are now at risk of being held legally responsible for egregious harms committed by Amazon (TBA) and FedEx Ground (RPS) delivery drivers, both of which are operated through subcontracting to (unti
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by altairprime 7d ago
I hadn’t considered that possibility until you suggested it, but your question does make a good point. I’ll have to look up the mail inspection rules but I assume(?) they have every right until a court finds otherwise. It sounds like exactl
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by altairprime 7d ago
USPS has just introduced a $50 “misuse of hazmat labeling” fee with supporting context that could infer a much stronger parcel scanning process behind the scenes (since it’s presented as a ‘you wasted our time’ fee). I would hesitate to say
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by altairprime 9d ago
That implies they chose not to. More likely the other states simply didn’t realize the value derived from paying a vendor to enable a ‘feature’, not realizing both the necessity of such signatures and that the cost to the vendor and mechani
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by altairprime 10d ago
Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab (248 comments, 2 years ago)
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by altairprime 11d ago
How did you end up choosing the color scheme for this site?
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by altairprime 14d ago
A lot of tech folks turn out to enjoy management roles more than engineering roles, but until now human subordinates were the only option available. Now that subordinates without feelings, whimsy, and labor rights have been introduced as
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by altairprime 15d ago
Soluna is like eating crispy wine and is currently at the top of my list. Prior to finding that, Lady Alice improves on Pink Lady, and it was my rockstar favorite. Envy is my go-to year-round when I can’t find rarer varietals; I’ve eaten hu
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by altairprime 15d ago
> Built with GPT-6 Astra. AGPL-3.0. The AI-generated code has no copyright (which is only assigned to human works) and so, presumably, this is largely public domain?
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by altairprime 15d ago
Because doing so does not materially devalue Apple’s product. Sure, a dedicated attacker could try to overcome it, but few will, and only people of such serious consequence that they can afford the effort of modification. By and large this
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by altairprime 16d ago
I often saw the same pattern in engineers who hated Agile and Jira, but then would spend weeks coding automation to avoid one-time drudgery that would have taken a tenth of the time to complete. So I am being careful not to judge “Lazy”, be
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by altairprime 16d ago
That’s not Power User, that’s Lazy User: just like how Agile tries to offload the work of managing ticket statuses onto developers, their demand offloaded the work of recording post-it note outcomes onto attendees.
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by altairprime 16d ago
Miro was always fine to use at work. It’s no Visio desktop or OmniGraffle but it wasn’t offensive and I only somewhat preferred LucidChart over it.
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by altairprime 17d ago
I'm just reaching the age where I need reading glasses late in the day, and so in a couple years when I'm out of school and employed again, this is starting to look like the best option in the Kindle / Tablet space: it isn&#x
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by altairprime 18d ago
> It is now: Matt added bzip3 to the benchmark seemingly after the last year thread. If the zstd benchmark, last update at max 22 in 2016, were to be updated for today’s zstd (for long-range if nothing else) after coming across this th
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by altairprime 19d ago
It’s also used in this paper blending an aspect of LZ77 with BWT: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05937 https://github.com/nicolaprezza/lz-rlbwt Which leads me to wonder if someone did, in fact, solve
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by altairprime 19d ago
“Additional benchmarks on the same dataset” (2025) explores various compression levels with and without long range mode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901476
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by altairprime 19d ago
“for fairness, the benchmarks have been performed using single thread mode” (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902241
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by altairprime 19d ago
Previously: “Hi, tool author here.” A useful explanation of Burrows-Wheelers transform as used by bzip3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902407 “bzip3 is not yet listed on the large text compression benchmark” It is
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by altairprime 19d ago
There’s a list of them in the Intercepting section of the source video.
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by altairprime 19d ago
Chrome would be more likely to implement a persistent and identifiable (to Google alone) tracking cookie replacement and ship it worldwide, which iirc they did — and then cancelled, of course. They seem to be focusing instead on improved tr
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by altairprime 19d ago
Your intentions can reasonably be interpreted by a court as attempting to avoid paying a commercial software licensing fee. Use of Fable is, in your specific instance, irrelevant to whatever the outcome would be; the finding of intent holds
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by altairprime 19d ago
Client TLS is rather unusable on the Internet by a typical random end user visiting a random public site, so that should at least keep the specific scenario you describe at bay.
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by altairprime 21d ago
For those just now encountering isomorphic keyboards, my experience with them is purely in software on a tablet, courtesy of a pair of extremely tangential links that I encountered a while back. While esoteric, they're what have made
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by altairprime 21d ago
This, with state default-off and remembered per-domain. Not my invention but glad for it!
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by altairprime 21d ago
The layout can also be tuned for microtonal variants that wouldn't normally be playable without handcrafted custom instruments or per-string adjustable guitar frets or etc. I'm not fully familiar with the domain yet but as part of

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