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Re:Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:02PM (#50236036)
I didn't think that it would know but their support UX funnels you through it so that's where I started. I followed it up with a ticket.
Re:Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset on Sunday October 25, 2026 @03:17PM (#50235079)
20 year customer here. This morning I asked their support chatbot if this is related to the PHP vulnerabilities and it assured me that's not the case. I'm skeptical.

These status updates from the PHP incident would also have us believe that they were never directly affected: https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/pages/incident/575f0f6068263...

They're being awfully vague about this issue so far. 8 hours ago I submitted a ticket requesting more information and they've not responded yet. I guess that they're still in the thick of it.

Re:Claude Duet on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:21AM (#50193860)
> I've eaten sit down soba/udon meals that are 500 yen each, or literally ~$3, tax and tip included)

You're tipping in Japan?!

> “These findings could help explain what happens when the body’s thermoreceptors become impaired in ageing and disease.”

> ...this new understanding of the body’s thermoreceptors could inform treatments for people struggling with thermal dysfunction.

It would be amazing if this research also led to a treatment for the rare symptom of temperature reversal caused by ciguatera fish poisoning (ciguatoxin neurotoxins) overstimulating one's nerves. I am not personally afflicted but have friends who have been; one is still dealing with various symptoms many years later.

I'm only halfway through listening but this is a rad album! Thank you for sharing.
Welp, it's time for a Candyman remake that works this cemetery into the lore.
Re:macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @08:44AM (#47322496)
Pinch (or CMD + minus) zoom out slightly as a workaround.
Re:Japanese Woodblock Print Search on Sunday February 22, 2026 @10:41AM (#47111882)
Amazing resource - thank you for creating it!

We have "Red Gate in the Rain" by Kasamatsu Shiro [1] hanging in our home. I uploaded a photo of it and had a great time browsing other works by Shiro.

My wife also noted that we'll eventually inherit Shiro's "Snow Falling at Red Gate" [2], in the same series, from her aunt.

We've a couple other prints that I am going to search now... thanks again!

[1] https://ukiyo-e.org/image/artelino/30852g1

[2] https://ukiyo-e.org/image/jaodb/Kasamatsu_Shiro-No_Series-Sn...

I also understood it the way that you did, and got excited. Womp womp. I'm optimistic that it will be reality in the not too distant future though.

Wen Waymo Campervans?!

Re:Not Paying with Cash on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:47PM (#45122128)
I never thought I’d see Ely mentioned on HN.

http://moosebay.com is a close family friend who lives in and guides out of Ely. I had a great trip there many years ago.

I’ll have to ask them about your story, surely they remember it happening.

Re:Honky-Tonk Tokyo (2020) on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @04:46PM (#44893634)
Watched them in January this year, cold and windy and they were still going hard. It was a lot of fun!
Re:GCP Outage on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:29PM (#44261166)
For us Cloud SQL instances are toast but App Engine Standard instances are still serving requests. Google Cloud console is borked too, mostly just erroring out.
Re:Googler... ex-Googler on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:38AM (#43681806)
Dammit. I listened to Adam on https://shoptalkshow.com/659/ just last week and really admired his impressive depth of knowledge about CSS and the web and how well spoken he is on the subjects.
I’m surprised to see no mention of the other Aquarius Reef Base in Key Largo, which I’ve had the pleasure of visiting (from the outside only, freediving) in person: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_Reef_Base
Re:UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:38PM (#42335665)
> Remember when Bob Lee was shot in San Francisco

Bob Lee was stabbed.

Re:Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @01:08PM (#42186434)
This is some kind of RDBMS mutant CRUDucken.
Re:Show HN: A Website for Comparing Protein Powder Prices on Monday October 07, 2024 @04:18PM (#41770555)
I don't see WithinYou's Steak Shake. It's my goto.

Good idea and nice execution btw. There's a lot of solid feedback in the comments that will make this even better.

Re:Martello Tower on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:03AM (#39165299)
Of the ones listed, I've only been to the two in Key West, FL, USA.

Neither of them (currently) outwardly resembles the, apparently common, cylindrical/cone look of most of the ones pictured in the wiki.

The West Tower garden is beautiful. The East Tower is a museum and my primary memory of it is that it houses this creepy doll that we learned about during a Ghost tour and had to go see for ourselves: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/robert-doll

Suggested title update: include species context, which is the American or Maine Lobster (officially "Homarus americanus").

That species is quite different from the myriad species of spiny lobster that are common throughout much of the world (notably that the American Lobster has claws).

Here's some further reading on this and other interesting lobster lore, by the MIT Sea Grant Program:

https://seagrant.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Lobster_...

Re:Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri on Monday January 15, 2024 @01:42PM (#39004403)
I've been on two trips to Japan - 2014 and 2023. We enjoyed eating a lot of onigiri on both trips. During the latter trip I noticed that the ¥ price hadn't changed much but the amount of filling (various proteins) had gone down considerably, which makes sense from a business perspective.

We've tried making them at home a couple of times but haven't perfected it yet. Reading this is motivating me to give it another shot soon.

Re:SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed] on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:48PM (#38935890)
X's @Safety account just confirmed some details of the compromise: https://twitter.com/Safety/status/1744924042681897343

I'm surprised that the SEC wasn't using 2FA.

Re:SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed] on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @08:40PM (#38935056)
Perhaps. There were an odd couple of "likes" made by the SEC X account during the same time period though (they've since been "unliked"), and Chair Genlser + a follow up post by @SECGov both specifically say that the account was compromised.
Re:SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed] on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:52PM (#38932674)
This is so wild. Assuming it was financially motivated, wouldn't the involved party stand to benefit more by shorting and posting that the ETF was denied?
Re:CSS Is Fun Again on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @01:53PM (#38785191)
I don't know the answer but I did find their Beanie Babies exploit entertaining: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38227823
And most familiar to me as the capital of the Barony of New Canaan in Stephen King's The Dark Tower. Albeit no balm in this story (that I recall). https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/Gilead
Dig it.

Melissa McCarthy as Hestu.

Jessica Biel as Purah.

Danny DeVito or Jack Black as Robbie.

Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe as Kilton and their brother, respectively.

Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:42PM (#37920540)
Bahaha! I started getting into DnB in the mid-nineties and have left shows because of MCs that I just couldn't tolerate.

And while we're on the topic, and because it's rare for me to get to chat about DnB with anyone... here are some fun short stories from over the years:

A friends Dad happened by when I was listening to DnB without headphones and said "THAT is NOT music... it sounds like a toilet flushing".

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I like listening to DnB during focus-intensive work. On a road trip with friends I'd been working without music for a bit and when I finally put headphones on with some DnB my friends were cracking up saying that I started typing at warp speed once the music started. Hey, it works for me!

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I was wearing a Bass Drive radio t-shirt underneath an unbuttoned long sleeve shirt, so if you can picture it opened down the center and partially obscuring both sides of the large "Bass Drive" logo, and a friend starts staring at my chest and chuckling. I ask what's so funny and he says "Heh-heh... why're you wearing an "ass doctor" shirt?". "ass Dr", ha.

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I use to work on the computer late into the night at a friend's house and he had a roommate who lived in the basement. I usually worked at the dining room table, which happened to be directly above the roommate's bed, with a hardwood floor between us, and on more than one occasion he'd come upstairs half-asleep and say "PLEASE stop tapping your feet on the floor". The last thing I'd ever want to do is torture him awake with that, but I'd be so into the DnB in my headphones that it was happening subconsciously.

Re:The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:38PM (#35889805)
Heck yeah, cool! Similar experience here too. In only a few hours I got a basic working custom JavaScript space shooter going, and I've since started a Whac-a-Mole style game.

GPT explaining it along the way and allowing me to have a reasonable conversation with it when something isn't working as-expected has been a rewarding and fun learning experience.

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