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Re:Playing “Minecraft” Without Minecraft (2024) on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:29AM (#45298546)
They do provide deobfuscation maps these days at least
Re:Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @08:04AM (#44433034)
This pretty much solves the problem of too many bots, but only in a way that works with Cloudflare and does not help the rest of the web. They don't mention any possibility of specifying a different platform to route payments through for instance.
Re:Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container on Saturday April 05, 2025 @05:31AM (#43592141)
I would presume they are talking about how Java is executed by the Java language's Java VM while Bedrock is compiled C++ code?
Another interesting protocol that supports LoRa is Reticulum, which uses an announce based system for bandwidth efficiency instead of Meshtastic's flood based routing.
Re:Shifting Cyber Norms: Microsoft security POST-ing to you on Thursday January 23, 2025 @11:00AM (#42805201)
Executing JavaScript on random pages seems like quite a bad idea, spammers could potentially include links to JavaScript which does resource intensive things, like that small and sketchy trend of including Bitcoin miners in websites.
Technically this is a dupe as this has been submitted twice before in the last week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42658405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42633273

> Game publisher Tencent

Tencent is not a game publisher, while it does have a games division which publishes video games, that is one thing it does, not all of them.

Tencent is a Chinese multinational company that is the largest video games vendor and is also among the largest social media, venture capital, and investment corporations. It also owns the Chinese social media app WeChat.

Re:How Britain got its first internet connection (2018) on Friday January 10, 2025 @02:33AM (#42653495)
> (2018)

I'm pretty sure the article is more recent than that... After some searching I found the Conversation's RSS feed for technology[1] which says it was 2025 after searching the page for "internet" and looking through the results

   <id>tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/45404</id>
    <published>2025-01-08T16:44:10Z</published>
    <updated>2025-01-08T16:44:10Z</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://theconversation.com/how-britain-got-its-first-internet-connection-by-the-late-pioneer-who-created-the-first-password-on-the-internet-45404"/>
    <title>How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet</title>
[1] https://theconversation.com/uk/technology/articles.atom
Re:Let's Encrypt to end OCSP support in 2025 on Friday January 03, 2025 @11:40AM (#42587109)
Wouldn't it be a better idea to use the original blog post direct from Lets Encrypt[1]?

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/2024/12/05/ending-ocsp/?

Star Trek: Discovery is... Something.

In my opinion, it's one of the worst (non canon now) Star Trek shows but it does get marginally better if you can struggle through the first season or two.

I would not recommend it unless you have nothing else to watch

Odd but still not within the guidelines as

> HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops

Is in them

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, preferably without having to sign up, get a confirmation email, and other such barriers. You'll get more feedback that way, plus HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

This looks very interesting but Show HNs need to be usable easily without making an account

Very wholesome
Re:Query Apple's FindMy Network with Python on Saturday December 21, 2024 @10:11AM (#42480108)
If it functions exactly as an AirTag does then it would be hard as they would not want to block all previously sold AirTags
Re:Ask HN: Does Hacker News consist mostly of real people? on Friday December 20, 2024 @10:26AM (#42471893)
I believe the Bluesky posts were organic and likely due to the fact it was a sudden Twitter replacement that at its peak was gaining 1 million users a day.
> Meanwhile, smart TVs made by Hisense and Samsung which were tested by Which? asked for people's postcodes during set-up.

I would guess that they would then sell that information along with the IP address to a company such as Maxmind who make IP location databases

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, preferably without having to sign up, get a confirmation email, and other such barriers. You'll get more feedback that way, plus HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

This looks like quite an interesting project but Show HNs need to be usable without sign up pages

Re:Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @10:59AM (#42378050)
> zero water > ultra-low Water Usage Effectiveness Those seem like contradictory statements. Ultra low is not zero.
I've been thinking about making a Discord bot like bot on Bluesky recently... Embeds can be messed with, like on discord and posts beginning with "#mention /" ought to be easy enough to detect
Would be great if it was possible to get to the page where the pricing was found to make it easier to use the model
Re:Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @02:34AM (#42303800)
Not the author, but on a Pi 5 small LLMs such as tinyllama or qwen2.5:0.5b run at over 25 tokens per second (haven't tested the performance boost with it yet). It could be useful if you wanted a local assistant or an AI server for devices you don't want to run LLMs on
Re:Yggdrasil Network on Saturday November 16, 2024 @10:24AM (#42156876)
Why not use the entire public key and let entropy do the rest, like the Reticulum Network?
Re:Yggdrasil Network on Saturday November 16, 2024 @10:22AM (#42156872)
Something else in this space includes the Reticulum Network Stack https://reticulum.network/
Re:SmolLM2 on Saturday November 02, 2024 @05:09AM (#42025062)
I wonder how one would finetune this
It certainly interests me that the website I use to view various headlines just displays 'Company named ">' Nothing seems to happen however
Re:Access your Raspberry Pi without a public IP on Saturday October 19, 2024 @03:50AM (#41886344)
These are certainly good ways to go about it, but https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/connect/ does exist and is completely free and pretty easy to use
Re:Linux Horror Stories and Protection Spells (Volume I) (2021) on Friday September 20, 2024 @10:28AM (#41602362)
This is from 2021¹, so it should probably have a (2021)

¹See bottom of article under who the author is

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