jwilk

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by jwilk 10d ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290881 ("Unicode 18.0.0 Beta", 3 months ago, 66 comments)
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The Unicode Standard, Version 18.0(blog.unicode.org)
2 points by jwilk 10d ago|1 comments
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by jwilk 12d ago
ITYM https://status.d420.de/
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by jwilk 12d ago
They do this by setting cookie "redesign_optout=true" for www.reddit.com (and then using that domain).
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by jwilk 12d ago
Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695459 (over 100 comments)
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by jwilk 14d ago
LSM = Linux Security Module What's TCB though?
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by jwilk 15d ago
Also, fallocate+chmod is racy: between the two calls, an attacker could open the file, and then keep it open until next reboot. OTOH, mkswap creates the swap file with the correct permissions straight away. The --size and --file options are
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by jwilk 15d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603335 (30 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 18d ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562262 (22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538096 (4 comments)
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by jwilk 21d ago
You can use www.reddit.com (yes, this domain, not old.reddit.com) with the old UI if you set cookie "redesign_optout=true".
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by jwilk 22d ago
It's a soft keyword: https://docs.python.org/3.15/reference/lexical_analysis.html... > As soft keywords, their use in the grammar is possible while still preserving compatibility with existing code that u
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by jwilk 22d ago
The HN submission title is a garden-path sentence: Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned (Huh? How do you scan a company?) The original title is easier to parse: Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verifica
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by jwilk 23d ago
Discussed in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069353 (105 comments) Sadly the original domain has been usurped.
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by jwilk 24d ago
The lack or determinism is irrelevant. It's trivial to make an LLM deterministic (certianly much easier than to make a human deterministic!), but that wouldn't make it any more trustworthy.
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by jwilk 26d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465158 (7 comments)
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by jwilk 26d ago
Hmm… To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest 1 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively 2 state the exclusion of warranty 3; and 4 each 5 file 6 should 7 have 8 at 9 10 least
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by jwilk 27d ago
From the HN guidelines < https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shorten
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by jwilk 27d ago
Huh? Are you saying there's an Argon2 implementation in the kernel?
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by jwilk 27d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791 (over 200 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 27d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791 (over 200 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 27d ago
Curiously, this makes Firefox display the default favicon (instead of no favicon): https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/raw/refs/heads/ma...
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by jwilk 29d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481018 (9 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 29d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481018 (9 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 1mo ago
Other interesting APIs are: https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/tweet/[tweetid] https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/tweet/[tweetid]/replies
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by jwilk 1mo ago
What is the uid parameter for? It looks to me it's ignored.
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by jwilk 1mo ago
The latter URL looks wrong.
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by jwilk 1mo ago
Still on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 (nearly 900 comments)
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by jwilk 1mo ago
I thought we were talking about alternative ways to read Twitter. Alternative microblogging services are not of any help to me, because nobody (that I wanted to read) posts there.
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by jwilk 1mo ago
I had the same experience with XCancel, but nitter.net worked for me.
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by jwilk 1mo ago
It did, and then it came back. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/discussions/1212

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