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Somebody needs to run Windows Update :-)

> the hackers pirated controllers mostly supplied by the Danish company Danfoss, which said subsequently that it had identified some security flaws last year and had “long recommended” customers install updates.

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:51AM (#50197092)
I see what you did there :-)
Re:Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:38AM (#50105263)
Great work.

The UI styling looks very similar to the other website mentioned here

https://shopspec.io/

Just a coincidence or is there some collaboration already ?

Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:53AM (#50104564)
Note the 'tiny' part is big constraint

The entire 'document' is encoded in the URL and so there a quick limit to document size

Text documents max out at about 2,000 characters or so

Re:I'm in a Meeting on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:51PM (#50024234)
The audio level is quite high...I had to set my speakers audio level down to 20% so as not to annoy the cats
Re:Theranos.World on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:50PM (#50014063)
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s world map covers the entire Earth at approximately 1:1 scale: about 510 million square kilometres of surface, including roughly 149 million km² of land

Ref: https://flyawaysimulation.com/ask/answers/microsoft-flight-s...

Re:Ask HN: Why today's black banner at top on HN News on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:16PM (#50010639)
And as quickly as it appeared...the black banner is gone
Re:Google Playground on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:12AM (#50006808)
HN Hug of Death :-)

Ask HN: Why today's black banner at top on HN News

Hello all,I see a black banner at the top of HN News today and I know it normally to highlight an event that occurred that would be great significance to the HN community at large.I believe today's banner is for the passing of Margaret Hamilton (https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007)My question is two fold1) Am I right or is the black banner for something...

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Re:$2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:32PM (#49996920)
HN Hug of death :-)

Something went wrong We couldn't load this page. This is usually a temporary issue.

Re:Find the flattest route between any two points in SF on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:25PM (#49983598)
I believe the "wheels on the bus go round and round" :-)
Re:Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:01PM (#49913529)
Or if you don't want to share your email address with NYT

https://archive.ph/PpKtR

Re:A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks into a Telnet Server on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:42AM (#49742468)
Yeah but its also quite trivial to give them credit

https://xkcd.com/2347/

Re:How Big Are Factorials? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:05AM (#49728170)
The author's casual mention of 52! at the opening of the article triggered an OLD webpage that I saw many years ago

https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html

Anyone know how to determine the age of this page (it's got be at least 20yrs old)

Re:The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:55PM (#49717126)
Great read.

I like how the author uses the analogy of scrabble word creation to describe LLM training but unfortunately the analogy didn't continue to inference and I got lost trying to keep up.

Re:How to Build a $20B Semiconductor Fab (2024) on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:17PM (#49660945)
Impressive level of engineering for modern fabs
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:47PM (#49649266)
I believe they have a more in-depth posting that talks about it

https://shopify.engineering/shop-app-migration

Re:Software Drives People Insane on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:06PM (#49648768)
> A boring application that stores records in a database and lets people edit

> them doesn't sound especially impressive, while a distributed event-driven

> platform with a service mesh and realtime synchronization layer sounds like

> you're building NORAD.

Very well put

You might have to google it because it's not standardized across the country

https://www.google.com/search?q=police+non+emergency+number+...

Re:Astra replicates Adobe Lightroom on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:32PM (#49615670)
Not sure what to do here.

How do I move the fly around

Re:Copper lined vest to help penguins with recovery on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:28PM (#49613508)
Using a vest is probably more fashionable than the cone of shame that other pets get
Re:Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo in historic human victory on Thursday September 03, 2026 @03:13PM (#49555168)
Deep link to Shin Jinseo's strength graph

https://www.goratings.org/en/players/1313.html

Re:Higher Multipoles of the Cow on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:20AM (#49551481)
The usage of the word hexapentacontadictapole is very good
Re:Higher Multipoles of the Cow on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:17AM (#49551376)
The Acknowledgements section, at the end of the paper, is very entertaining (as is the rest of the paper)

Why did Microsoft acquire LinkedIn?

It's been 10+ years since Microsoft acquired LinkedIn (June 2016) and I'm still curious what was going on in the MS executive board that drove them to that decision.Microsoft is primarily a software company and does have a social media presence (unlike Google or Meta).I haven't seen any large synergies come out of the acquisition either, maybe the subscriber data is useful somewhere but I don't...

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