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Re:Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:44AM (#28479127)
Castle Bravo was a ground burst and produced a crater about 2Km across. The debris from the crater ended up as fallout.

Tsar Bomba was detonated at an altitude of 4Km, the shock wave prevented the fireball from reaching the ground and producing a crater, so it produced less fallout.

Accelerando

> In IP geek circles, Manfred is legendary; he's the guy who patented the business practice of moving your e-business somewhere with a slack intellectual property regime in order to evade licensing encumbrances. He's the guy who patented using genetic algorithms to patent everything they can permutate from an initial description of a problem domain – not just a better mousetrap, but the set of all possible better mousetraps.

They used to offer that functionality but removed it years ago.

I've been using this userscript since then. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...

It might be called Google Hit Hider by Domain but the author has expanded it to cover most major search engines over the years.

The Firefox version has the ability to block third party scripts masked as first party ones through the use of CNAMEs. Chrome doesn't expose APIs to let extensions do it.
I've been using this userscript since Google dropped the ability to block results years ago. It works across a bunch of search engines.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...

Re:Black Mail on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:23AM (#22863742)
Ignore it. They got the password from a data breach somewhere.

Change the password on any other site that you use that password for.

Using a password manager makes it much easier to use unique, complex passwords for each site you have a login for.

Re:HN shadow banning certain news links? on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:18PM (#22859059)
Their submission got flagged so it vanished from the new links page. They think HN is doing it automatically for certain sites.
Re:We need to talk about AirPods Pro on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:46PM (#22836674)
I've had problems with pretty much every in-ear bud I've had up until I bought the AirPod Pro's. Not had a single time when I've felt they have even started to come loose.

I wear them with the stalks pointing forward at around 45 degrees.

Many of the streamers I watch on Twitch use Streamlabs for multiple things including donations. Can't vouch for them personally but they are certainly the most common on that platform.
Re:Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M on Thursday December 26, 2019 @05:30AM (#21882975)
uBlock Origin blocked 15 items on the page for me (20%) when I bypassed their geoblock. Not great, not terrible.

I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in what was filtered so it's probably just knee-jerk.

Re:List of Statements Independent of ZFC on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:25PM (#21829654)
ZFC was created to avoid the paradoxes inherent in Cantor's set theory work.
Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results on Sunday November 24, 2019 @03:07PM (#21622958)
I've been using a userscript called Googles Hit Hider by Domain from Jefferson Scher that allows you to blacklist sites since Google removed the ability to do it natively (it works with all the major search engines, not just Google as the name implies) : http://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

[Edit: credit the author of the script]

I currently have 135k network rules active in uBlock Origin without having all of their lists active. Your 150k proposal is nowhere near enough.
Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? on Saturday November 02, 2019 @11:05AM (#21428056)
Nokinside linked a couple upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427367

The first one works for me.

Re:Structura Bio Is Hiring Software Engineers in Toronto on Friday November 01, 2019 @11:14AM (#21419679)
Please see the FAQ entry about posting job ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

A new who's hiring has in fact just been posted and will probably be on the front page shortly. You might want to post to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419536

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