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Re:Creepy Crawlies on Monday August 31, 2026 @06:59AM (#49508212)
If you know the IP, it's easy to tar scraper's requests.

However the article mentions that now they are being scraped 4-5 requests at a time from random IPs that are then never reused. It still probably possible to detect scrapers if they start by requesting obscure pages, but in general it's a much more difficult case.

Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Saturday August 29, 2026 @09:13AM (#49489643)
Neither is Iceland as it has no oil ... or any other mineral resources for that matter.
Re:Don't Wordle on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:50AM (#49433140)
Some of the suggested plays for yellow EA and green H after the first guess:

    ALMEH
    BEKAH
    BELAH
    DEASH
    OBEAH
    SELAH
Not much fun to play with a dictionary like this :-/
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @07:56AM (#49360315)
Wait for the Italian where "cc" makes a "ch" sound and "ch" is "k"

* When followed by e or i.

Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @07:46AM (#49360237)
Keanu was excellent in Fart :)
Re:Don't use your phone while you poop on Saturday August 08, 2026 @10:48AM (#49222364)
Back when we lived without phones, we used to read instruction labels on all and any household cleaning products that were stored in the bathroom.

I bet there too was some obscure newspaper column that advised against that.

Yet, lo and behold, we survived!

> what the final product should taste like

To each their own, obviously, but I find it utterly unpalatable.

Especially compared to something like genmaicha, which is absolutely delightful.

Re:I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI on Sunday June 28, 2026 @03:11PM (#48710473)
What did you have exactly?

With calcifications, physio without the shockwave component definitely doesn't allow going back to the normal gym routine. It's just not enough.

As opposed to what?
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:00AM (#48552063)
Or some version of RMS :)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026) on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:03PM (#48362597)
No pm on hn, mate.
At 26MB setup package it most likely doesn't.
> A new kind of Russian satellite is now in the mix. This satellite, officially known as Kosmos 2589, was launched in June 2025 into a highly elliptical orbit alongside a smaller spacecraft designated Kosmos 2590. The two satellites performed a series of high-altitude rendezvous and proximity operations with one another before Kosmos 2589 began moving toward a more circular geosynchronous orbit, where it arrived in April.

> One of the US military’s GSSAP satellites was waiting for it. The US inspector spacecraft is now looping around Kosmos 2589, swinging near the newly arrived Russian satellite twice per day, coming as close as 8 miles (13 kilometers).

Someone's full-time job is this. Crazy stuff.

Re:A nicer voltmeter clock on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:31PM (#48182663)
Good luck with random AS blocks. Sounds thoughtful.
Re:A nicer voltmeter clock on Sunday May 17, 2026 @05:34PM (#48173396)
> https://www.n1kdo.com/meter-clock/index.html

Can't access it. Connection attempts time out.

Give "Please Don't Touch Anything" a try.
Re:France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain on Monday April 06, 2026 @05:56AM (#47658844)
Gold is down 10+% since its recent peak. They likely sold then and repurchased later.
Re:French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference? on Thursday March 26, 2026 @01:53PM (#47533565)
Probably more on imaging / as going up and \ as going down.

I'd think that associating pitch increase/decrease with up/down works for the vast majority of people without any second thought.

Re:French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference? on Thursday March 26, 2026 @01:48PM (#47533515)
> ë

What else is there with ë except for Noël and Israël ?

Re:French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference? on Thursday March 26, 2026 @01:10PM (#47533006)
If there's one thing I wish someone pointed out when I was just starting learning French is this:

  é - the accent is pointing up, so it's a higher-pitched e

  è - the accent is pointing down, so it's a lower-pitched e
That's it. That's how it should be explained.

* It's also in their names - aigu and grave, but this requires knowing what these words mean.

Re:Chuck Norris has died on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:29AM (#47455996)
Chuck Norris jokes were making rounds well before Vin Diesel was even born.
What if you have two things? You'd then need two buttons.

The push button is a perfectly viable option, it just needs to be in a form factor that's works. Could be as simple as a tiny low-energy Bluetooth board with a coin battery that will last several months.

Re:A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm on Sunday March 15, 2026 @03:24PM (#47390934)
Why would it mean that?

All inbound packets are matched against existing sessions. In this case none will turn up, so the packet will go through the "new session" flow and be subject to the same filtering as a bare SYN. Look up how connection tracking works, e.g. in the Linux kernel, it's rather simple and logical.

Re:A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm on Sunday March 15, 2026 @12:37PM (#47389041)
Sanity checks, sure, but SYN,!ACK packets cannot be rejected before the conntrack for obvious reasons.

> Plenty of setups block incoming SYN,!ACK packets

Nowhere close to being "plenty". It's doable, but this is extremely niche.

Re:A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm on Sunday March 15, 2026 @11:27AM (#47388328)
> Plenty of setups block incoming SYN,!ACK packets

Even in the presence of a conntrack entry created by an earlier outbound SYN,!ACK ?

Got a source?

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