Ask HN: Why do web servers still reveal their type and version in headers?
Isn't that inviting bad actors to scour the web for servers with just the right vulnerability? What's to gain by revealing that?
johnsanders
Re:AnimeJs v4 Is Here
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:25PM (#43576207)
It's not so much about playing/slowing/speeding up an animation or video. It's about moving forward and backward through an "experience," as much as I dislike the overuse of that word. I'd suggest it's a natural evolution of the scroll behavior.
Re:Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time
on Monday October 21, 2024 @07:07PM (#41909493)
I remember as a kid asking how many possible speeds there are between 60 mph and 0 mph. Infinite right? So how does the car get from 60 to stopped when mom hits the brakes?
Re:Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:55AM (#40073090)
Just makes me happy I'm not the only one. I always feel like I'm an idiot when I resort to setting position: relative and nudge icons a pixel or three here or there.
Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and st...
on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:45PM (#40015581)
Hey Peter.. many thanks! My husband is from Gibraltar and his spousal green card application has cleared USCIS and is with NVS.
Gibraltar has changed the name of the criminal record document it issues but NVS has not updated its system. So they keep rejecting his documents even though we included a letter from the police commissioner explaining the situation.
Any suggestions?
Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the...
on Friday January 05, 2024 @05:20PM (#38885795)
Anybody who says newspapers and other "legacy media" are obsolete isn't aware of journalists like Dominic Gates.
Re:Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geolog...
on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:07PM (#38669988)
> Perhaps unusually, the authors of this paper are not convinced of the correctness of their proposed hypothesis.
A refreshing conclusion to an academic paper, and beats the hell out of "further study is needed."
Re:Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:22PM (#38062359)
I'm not sure if it's made my life better or worse, but this book above all others has had the most profound impact on how I have lived it.
Re:Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @01:55PM (#38060983)
Content created by PBS and its member stations carries a copyright notice and cannot be legally redistributed without permission.
Re:Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @12:08PM (#38059884)
This may be pedantic, but I'm baffled that PBS page doesn't mention every PBS station is available for free over the air.
Re:USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reve...
on Monday October 09, 2023 @10:09PM (#37827823)
Has no one told the one about the USB guy's funeral?
They put him in the ground, but realized he was the wrong way 'round so they pulled him out and put him in the other way.
Re:$700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Rent...
on Sunday September 24, 2023 @10:02PM (#37638945)
Pretty sure this was a thing in Victorian England. It's in Jack the Ripper stories and possibly where the word "hangover" came from I think.
Re:Never Ending September Date
on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:00PM (#37331602)
Does this mean I can stop worrying about remembering to wake up Green Day?
Re:Ask HN: Why do web servers still reveal their type and version in h...
on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:31PM (#33294810)
Showing off in crawler stats who is dominate on the internet.
Had not thought of that.
Re:‘A massive betrayal’: how London’s Olympic legacy was sold out
on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:52AM (#31946370)
Ken Livingstone was many things, but "right-wing mayor" is not among them.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Neumorphism
on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:47PM (#31866502)
Did I miss something or was Neumorphism just that designers rediscovered inset shadows?
We're just putting new names on a design cycle that's been going on for decades, maybe centuries. Things get more ornate until it's so over the top we wipe it all clean and start over.
Re:Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video]
on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:47AM (#31779953)
"...we should hang one over [programmers' desks], or around their necks so they know what they're throwing away when they throw away a microsecond."
Relevant forty years later.
Re:How Street Dogs Spend Their Days
on Thursday June 09, 2022 @02:43AM (#31678219)
More research is needed.
Re:I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)
on Sunday June 05, 2022 @08:05AM (#31630227)
Yep. No way on earth I would have gotten the job I have if I'd been in the recruiting cattle call.
Re:The economics of stadium names
on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:49PM (#31623211)
This is what I was thinking, but couldn't quite articulate in my head.
Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”
on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:34AM (#31606124)
I sometimes wonder about CNN's relevance as the media world changes. 380+ comments and top of HN suggests it still holds mind share, at least with this cohort.
Re:The great junk transfer is coming
on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:08AM (#31501446)
I got it when i saw that dirty green Coleman flashlight. Who'd keep that? But ours was red, we used it at night on our farm and I vividly remember how that button felt and sounded when you clicked it on or off.
Re:Vangelis has died
on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:34AM (#31447997)
Aha... Here's one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpFWxKPOyQ
I forgot the ending of those ads... always a variation on... 'Roads that run through America... to a place.. we call home."
Re:Vangelis has died
on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:27AM (#31447870)
I'm sure it was a different experience up close, but as far as I'm concerned from a distance, he could only elevate a voiceover track.
He did Subway sandwiches for God's sake.
"We aspire to know all our customers by name... or at least by sandwich."
Or airport car rentals.
"There are over a million miles of roads in Alamo territory. And only Alamo gives you all those miles for free."
Re:Vangelis has died
on Thursday May 19, 2022 @02:10PM (#31438122)
And you can't mention the Ernest & Julio Gallo ads without a link to the voiceover guy / head of the ad agency Hal Riney. Another legend.
Re:Vangelis has died
on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:46PM (#31437830)
Chariots of Fire is iconic of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo
I think my first encounter with his music was the Ernest & Julio Gallo wine commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mES7lzR9uFE
Seems he should have been considerably older than 79.
Re:Tiger Global, hit by $17B in hedge fund losses, has nearly depleted...
on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @05:50AM (#31337729)
Yes! And defence/defense. Honestly I've forgotten which of those is which.
Re:Tiger Global, hit by $17B in hedge fund losses, has nearly depleted...
on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:03AM (#31337112)
Not sure I agree. As an American living in the UK I constantly battle autocorrect to spell it "rumor" or "favor," lest someone think I've gone native.
Re:NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan...
on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:33PM (#31320062)
One of America's best ideas. Laboratories of democracy. Maybe it works.. maybe not. But the rest of us learn from whatever happens.
Re:The Rise and Fall of World’s Fairs
on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:18AM (#31151458)
I'd thought that too, but the law in question only bars the State department from spending its budget on a pavilion. Nothing blocks congress from appropriating whatever it wants for that purpose.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2452b
As the documentary I linked in another comment points out, this has been misunderstood for so long, even people in the State department think it's an outright ban on use of any public funds.