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Re:Source code of the Estonian online voting system
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:38PM (#50134927)
You could have verification be done in person and not online with no way to share it.
Re:SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
on Saturday May 16, 2026 @12:24PM (#48161573)
warning: viewing the videos that auto play on that page shot up my downloads to 350Mbps on that page
Re:US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
on Sunday May 03, 2026 @05:27PM (#48001686)
thousands of wooden piles to create a foundation with the first one even failing and the foundation being reconstructed
Re:Google Confirms Android Attacks-No Fix for Most Samsung Users
on Monday December 08, 2025 @12:39PM (#46195224)
nice list of vulnerabilities and source changes
https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-12-01
Re:Bureau of Meteorology asked to examine $96.5M bill for website rede...
on Monday November 24, 2025 @12:02PM (#46036246)
Did they get a new satellite too? /s
Re:Eleven Music Is Here
on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @09:15PM (#44806566)
Does it sound like something a human could play? You're not attacking how it sounds but what it's playing.
Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released
on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:09PM (#44538702)
The switches on the lower panel that are switched, are the fuel cutoffs
Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released
on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:52PM (#44538639)
In this YouTube short you can see the pilot switching both fuel cutoff to run
Re:She Got a Permit for Her Chickens. Now the City Is Fining Her $80k
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @10:20PM (#44418590)
What do people have against chickens? Roosters should not be allowed but hens aren't loud or particularly smelly at all. Dogs can be a much bigger nuisance.
Re:U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butch...
on Thursday May 29, 2025 @11:20PM (#44132508)
Evidence of active harm, if they were in the US they would have been raided. They get sanctioned and can sue instead.
Re:GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill
on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:09PM (#43975892)
Now you get a grey area when AI is being added to everything to use as an excuse to avoid state laws
Re:Show HN: Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle
on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:36AM (#43661381)
Re:FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @11:54PM (#43408145)
@dang Semi-related but why are posts about Trump firing FTC Commissioners being removed/dead
Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards
on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:36PM (#43121269)
This is just adding to the bureaucracy, instead of approving all purchases on the card at once now they have to get approval for each and every purchase.
Re:Germany says its warships were sabotaged
on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:34AM (#43045520)
It's pretty even on both sides of dot and comma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_...
Re:Apple Explores Robotics in Search of Life Beyond the iPhone
on Sunday August 25, 2024 @01:18PM (#41349158)
What exactly are they ahead in? only thing that stood out was price
Re:Wiz walks away from $23B deal with Google
on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @01:05AM (#41042676)
>Wiz’s founders previously built security startup Adallom, raised money from Sequoia and Index and sold the startup to Microsoft for $320 million in 2015.
Copy, Paste and ask for 70 times more?
Re:Google Mesop: Build web apps in Python
on Sunday June 09, 2024 @09:24PM (#40629189)
Re:Square Enix to record extraordinary loss of 22.1B yen
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @05:45PM (#40216751)
So half of last years earnings?
Re:Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrec...
on Saturday January 27, 2024 @05:58PM (#39160745)
How would a random person know if that information was MNPI? How could you possibly prove that someone knew it was?
Re:UniFi U7 Pro
on Monday January 08, 2024 @06:32PM (#38920042)
XG 6 PoE, 4 ports for $600
https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...
Re:Lasers Deflected Using Air
on Friday October 06, 2023 @07:22PM (#37797585)
It's always amazing how things thought of in science fiction end up becoming reality. In this case bending lasers in air, now we just need a small moon capable of retaining it's atmosphere.
Re:FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee
on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:42PM (#37327860)
They already know what the fees are from, they just don't want to tell the consumer. How else would they calculate them?
Re:PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat
on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:11PM (#36742503)
But also not to be confused with OLEDB
Re:Webb Telescope detects most distant active supermassive black hole
on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:22AM (#36641569)
Are you saying the nucleus? because hydrogen is too
Re:Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation
on Friday June 16, 2023 @03:00PM (#36362020)
I mean it still doubled in 12 years from 1995-2007 while workers increased by ~10% based off that graphic. The stock holders are the only ones coming out on top with a more than quadruple in value since 1995.
Re:The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 1: Three Dimensions in Software
on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:48PM (#35730899)
Take a look at Unrecord, for the difference from 2010, photo realism has come a long way
https://www.polygon.com/23691482/unrecord-bodycam-fps-steam-...
Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump
on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:35PM (#35381273)
I'm curious how you think Trump has been assaulted by the legal system? I would say the opposite, with his own cases being thrown out by the judges he appointed.
Re:River Ranking by Water Flow Rate
on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:26AM (#35354197)
Had to look up the Colorado river because it wasn't big enough to even make the list, it's 37th in US alone. Wow, so many people rely on such a small river.