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Re:Chrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:24AM (#49991223)
I'm also surprised that none of the ccTLDs mention this on their sites.
Re:Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other la...
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:50AM (#49990939)
If I received a link to google.co.uk I would, because I'm in the UK. Why would I think otherwise if I were in Ghana and saw a link to google.gh?
Re:Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other la...
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:03AM (#49988887)
Other recent submissions include the link to google's blog at https://blog.google/security/chromes-response-to-recent-cctl... :
Re:Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
on Friday September 11, 2026 @10:42AM (#49659331)
In the last month, excluding this post, three of your five submissions were AI focused, and one was part-AI. For the past two months, it's five of 11. Certainly not "explicitly AI" but it's about half, which in the context of this overall discussion is towards "too much", IYAM. Half of HN being AI is still a poor signal-to-noise ratio.
Re:Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:23AM (#49658008)
Perhaps you could lead the change you wish to see?
Re:Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in 'Transformers,' Dies at 85
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:35PM (#49467529)
From BBC News' article:
His Optimus Prime voice was inspired by his older brother, a decorated US Marine and Vietnam War veteran, who suggested he should play the character as "a real hero, don't be a Hollywood hero".
"He said, 'Don't go yelling and screaming. He's strong enough to be gentle.'
"And that resonated with me, and I could hear his voice all the way to the audition. When he drops down, when he gets serious, is where I found Optimus Prime."
Cullen gave his brother a cut of the wages he received for playing Optimus Prime until his death.
Re:Twenty Years of RISC OS Open
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @10:54AM (#49145230)
I have a feeling I used that, either on my A3010 or my Risc PC. Thank you!
Re:Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @08:49AM (#49096826)
Except turning off macros means losing our precious slop generators! Won't someone think of the fossil fuel industry?
Re:About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:21AM (#49081788)
One of them lists an anonymous person!
CVE-2026-43744: Mathis Mansière, an anonymous researcher
Re:EU Commission Response to 'Stop Destroying Videogames'
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:42PM (#48562543)
Link to article: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...
Re:My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem
on Saturday May 09, 2026 @10:08AM (#48075123)
I've known a fair few drives with uncorrectable sectors or adaptor warnings that continue to work but a lot more that have degraded or just outright failed.
Re:My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem
on Friday May 08, 2026 @05:35PM (#48069071)
Well I don't see why you'd want to keep running a drive that is showing warning signs, it's just asking for trouble. But even if one doesn't replace them from this data, if you start seeing alerts and at the same time your database suffers from corruption, that also shows the use of SMART.
Re:My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem
on Friday May 08, 2026 @04:37PM (#48068481)
I'm surprised to have read to the end and found that they're still not performing any hardware monitoring and alerting. SMART may not always show up pre-failure warnings but when it does they can usually be trusted.
Re:Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16
on Sunday May 03, 2026 @05:49AM (#47995278)
With this change of policy the foundation does not "have any control or influence over what WinGet does", one of the first class methods to install python.
Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:11AM (#47764032)
The article links to a statement made by Backblaze:
"The Backup Client now excludes popular cloud storage providers [...] this change aligns with Backblaze’s policy to back up only local and directly connected storage."
I guess windows 10 and 11 users aren't backing up much to Backblaze, since microsoft is tricking so many into moving all of their data to onedrive.
Re:Installing Every* Firefox Extension
on Friday April 10, 2026 @08:02PM (#47725536)
"In terms of implementation, the most interesting one is “Іron Wаllеt” (the I, a, and e are Cyrillic). Three seconds after install, it fetches the phishing page’s URL from the first record of a NocoDB spreadsheet and opens it [...] The API key had write access, so I wiped the spreadsheet."
Re:Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't fi...
on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:11PM (#47617174)
We could have said that for publisher a few years back. Its death knell has been sounded and microsoft aren't even offering any way for people to properly view or print their publisher files, let alone edit them.
Re:Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their N...
on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:43AM (#47586527)
I saw this on restic's main repository the other day.
Re:SSH Secret Menu
on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:38AM (#47335436)
Not as much as they hate Enter ~ .
See "escape characters" under man ssh.
Re:Why there is no official statement from Substack about the data leak
on Sunday February 08, 2026 @03:59AM (#46932618)
It recently popped up on the HIBP feed; they tend to be pretty careful when checking the veracity of claims.
Re:Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to trai...
on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @05:10PM (#46698376)
The UK's BT Broadband did this around 2007 via Phorm. Actually they did worse - used the data to inject custom advertising. Not only were their customers chill with it, so was the Information Commissioner's Office, the government arm that ostensibly protects our privacy.
Re:Show HN: Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (=...
on Thursday January 01, 2026 @08:31AM (#46453954)
i netted six
alone in a scope of the entire globe,
temporary,
dynamic.
Re:PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public G...
on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:01PM (#46212378)
[email protected] : https://tv.gravitons.org/a/ursinewave/video-channels
"Roberta Fidora is a genre-bender from the Isle of Wight, UK, hopping between field recordings in space, industrial-tinged electroclash, guerrilla puppeteering and wildly maximalist, mildly-anarchic pop music."
[email protected] : https://tv.gravitons.org/c/meljoann/ "Meljoann is an extremely physically attractive Irish multidisciplinary artist. They’ve been supported by Pitchfork, Beats Per Minute, XLR8, KEXP, Dan Hegarty, Cian Ó Cíobháin, Jenny Greene and Tara Stewart of RTÉ radio, Irish Times, Nialler9, Hot Press, BBC’s Gemma Bradley, Dummy Mag, HMUK and the Arts Council of England. She’s currently releasing a series of self-directed video singles. ‘HR’, their anti-capital concept album, is out now. Their third album, ‘Status’, releases in 2025"
Re:ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse
on Monday December 08, 2025 @08:38PM (#46200296)
There's a lot of it on the Fediverse tech circles. I find a lot of it through following the #Fediverse tag on Mastodon.
Bandwagon.fm: A federated platform for musicians and fans: https://bandwagon.fm/
Bonfire: A modular server for building communities with a wide variety of services: https://bonfirenetworks.org/
write.as: "Type words, put them on the internet." https://write.as/
Re:A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
on Sunday November 23, 2025 @11:05AM (#46024534)
In the context of UK infrastructure, "OR" is an abbreviation of "Openreach", part of the BT Group that is responsible for the infrastructure from ducts and poles to street cabinets and exchange buildings. It is not an organisation that an end user can access for support and is charged by ISPs to repair, upgrade and install additions to large parts the telecommunications network. It can be difficult to convince one's ISP to have Openreach investigate a physical fault or bottleneck, unless that ISP is the aforementioned Andrews and Arnold who literally implemented automated methods to repeatedly bounce faults back to Openreach when the latter insists on erroneously rejecting faults. Makes for entertaining reading :-)
Re:The Rust version of `du` outputs wrong sizes in Ubuntu 25.10
on Sunday November 09, 2025 @03:44PM (#45868990)
Someone's already made a pull request to resolve the bug: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9202
Re:Blue Origin Launches NASA's Escapade Mission to Mars: How to Watch
on Sunday November 09, 2025 @06:15AM (#45864747)
I think the webcast will be hosted here: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
Re:3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf]
on Sunday November 02, 2025 @02:01AM (#45788368)
At 1,685,278 bytes this almost fits on within the hallowed 1.44 megabytes. Maybe the front and rear covers can be discarded?
Re:Jeep Wrangler Owners Waiting for Answers Week After an Update Brick...
on Saturday October 18, 2025 @01:31AM (#45625170)
"So, if you’re a Wrangler 4xe owner, here’s your order of operations for the time being:"
Do not use the vehicle under any circumstances and have the dealer take it away and keep it until it is safe to drive again.
Re:No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
on Sunday October 12, 2025 @12:42PM (#45559566)
Ironically File History silently ignores all the contents of any onedrive folders when backing up.