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4684499··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
Have you tried puter.js? They have something called User Pays Model: https://docs.puter.com/user-pays-model/
4684499··on Ask HN: your one-off HTML applet tailored to personal use?
I once needed to play three videos simultaneously to find an easter egg hidden in them. As I'm not familiar with video editing and don't have any professional tools, I ended up embedding three videos using a dozen of lines of HTML with basic controls and some dirty CSS tricks using devtools to uncover the message.
4684499··on Ask HN: How do I search the web in the age of enshittified search engines?
With links, it still seems to hallucinate on my end. Some info isn't even mentioned in the links it referred to, but it just spits it out like it's actually there.
4684499··on Tell HN: I have a new google.com tab labeled "Forums" – Is everyone seeing this?
It seems someone discovered this (along with other udm values) back in June https://medium.com/@tanyongsheng0805/every-google-udm-in-the...
4684499··on TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
That's pretty fast for a beta released yesterday. Are the devs actively monitoring and reverse engineering every binary released that related to streaming? Also, where can I get the live studio executable? None of the links I found works, is that public release?
4684499··on Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool
> on an open source project (since the project is transparent)

Not as transparent since the mobile apps are closed source at the moment.

4684499··on Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
Is there any ad blocker that blocks ads rendered within videos?

It's possible doesn't mean it's viable.

4684499··on 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
> It is unclear whether the accounts are real employees, bots or trolls pretending to be Amazon Ambassadors.

Personally I would wait for more evidence to judge (which seems unlikely to happen). It's not so hard to operate a false flag on platforms like Twitter.

4684499··on Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Lab Modification
I think that's misinterpretd, the ref link in the paper is https://globalbiodefense.com/headlines/chinese-lab-that-firs... , which leads to SCMP's https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3052966/chin...

SCMP's piece also mentioned that "It also obtained the required credentials to conduct research on the coronavirus on January 24." That indicates the Centre actually gained more access.

And if you search Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre on Google, you can see it's still actively doing COVID-19 related research. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

4684499··on Microsoft Edge (Chromium) – Elevation of Privilege to Potential RCE
> The one thing that is unique about the [New Tab Page] in the new Edge is that it's actually an online website

IIRC Chrome used to use https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab as its ntp.

4684499··on Show HN: Micro CRM, a CRM for People Who Hate CRMs
How does it compare to Monica[1]?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295

4684499··on Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
> Because it makes no business sense to do so.

Apparently there are needs, that's why this guide even exists. Maybe not many but there are people willing to pay for better privacy/data protection.

But you are right, this won't generates continuous income, which is bummer for developers.

4684499··on GitHub publishes DMCA deletion notifications sent by Bilibili
> illegally laid off

Source please?

4684499··on Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer
> 15. Later that day, on 12/12/2018 at approximately 4:00 p.m., Tan sent the following text message to his supervisor:

    ... [Another Company A supervisor] was asking if there is anything I have with me associated with company IP. I have a memory disk that contains lab data that I plan to write report on, and papers/reports I plan to read at home. Now that I have been exited from (COMP ANY A), can you check what is the best way of handling the information and how sensitive they are? Can I still read the papers/reports from the memory disk?
> 16. After receiving the above text from Tan, Tan's supervisor asked him to return the flash drive (which Tan's text message referred to as a "memory disk") to Company A.

> 17. At approximately 5:15 pm on 12/12/18, Tan returned to the Research Technology Center at Company A where he provided a USB flash drive to his supervisor. The USB flash drive was Tan's personal property, which he was not authorized to utilize within Company A's space. There is no record of Company A having issued a USB flash drive to Tan.

4684499··on Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
> Just saying it's a great (black hat) idea, and it works.

How good is the idea while you could be caught with physical evidence?

4684499··on Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
IMO, "Like" is just one of the ways for users to express themselves, you remove this tool, they'll find other ways, e.g., flood with one-word replies.

Account with huge number of followers that can block counter accounts could create an echo chamber, which is rather poisonous to a healthy debate.

That being said, I don't think twitter should be used as an debate platform, and there are some online tools trying to solve the problem already, like Kialo. They perhaps are not good enough, but still better than twitter.

4684499··on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom

  > The security expert, Yossi Appleboum, provided documents, analysis and other evidence
  > ... said Appleboum, who accompanied them for a visual inspection of the machine.
So can we at least get some photos of tampered hardware from these "evidence"?
4684499··on Apple Bloomberg Congressional Letter
If you want evidence, you should ask BBG for it first, who has provided none at the moment, even the picture they used is likely for illustration only, and they didn't make any declaration about that.

Technically possible doesn't mean it happened. You could be punched by your wife, does that mean she did punch you? Sorry for the inappropriate analogy, but you get the idea.

4684499··on Apple tells Congress it found no signs of hacking attack
Do you think the picture they used to present the chip is real? They certainly didn't claim the picture is for demonstration only, not the real thing.
4684499··on Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story

  > suspected

  > to prevent
Considering the article is credible, it doesn't mean Apple has found anything, it only means they were being cautious,
4684499··on Show HN: HayScout – Privacy first search engine funded by subscriptions
Personally speaking, I don't think Bing's result is worth paying for. I'd pay for Google's result without ads or being tracked or being collected. But there're already search engines like startpage (with ads), searx, etc, and they are free to use for now. I don't think pay for per query after exceeded the limit is going to work since users are used to unlimited queries.
4684499··on Show HN: A game that pits your sanity against JavaScript's == operator
Why does the page play audio?
4684499··on Show HN: NewsBlocks – A decentralized platform for trusted news applications

  Google is working with Chinese censors.
Could you show me the source to verify this statement? I'm aware of Google's Dragonfly, but I don't think that's equal to working with censors.
4684499··on Paper, the least terrible password management tool (2015)
I'd use an air gapped device to replace paper.
4684499··on Show HN: “Digital Scrap Paper” – simple, private in-browser note taking

  data:text/html,<h3 contenteditable oninput="document.title=this.innerHTML">untitled</h3><div contenteditable>note</div>
Put this in your address bar or bookmark it. Same functionality as yours, but you can save note's content with Ctrl + S since it's a div tag instead of textarea.
4684499··on Write – A word processor for handwriting
The size of that HTML page is 1.4MB...
4684499··on Show HN: Hacker News Post Coloring Extension to Chromium
Sorry, I used these lines a few years back, I'm using other styles now so I didn't know it stopped working.

You are right, it's not working.

Edit: OK, I know what's going on now, you need to add this to the code above:

    .comtr table {
        height: 100%;
    }
4684499··on Show HN: Hacker News Post Coloring Extension to Chromium
Actually you can use simple CSS with styling extensions like Stylus to achieve similar effect.

    .ind img {
        height: 100%;
        border-right: 3px solid red;
    }
If you want different color for different level of indent, just use attribute selector, like:

    .ind img {
        height: 100%;
        border-right: 3px solid;
    }
    img[width="40"] {
        border-color: red;
    }
    img[width="80"] {
        border-color: blue;
    }
4684499··on Google Employees Strongly Support Creating Censored Search Tool for China-Survey

  There was once a case to be made that it would be better overall for the Chinese populace to have improved access to most information, even if that meant accepting censorship over some information. But given the country's growing authoritarianism, that argument gets harder and harder to make
I don't quite understand such argument.

Besides, the Chinese government might not want Google to get back neither. I wonder if the author is going to change his mind once he realizes this. hehe

4684499··on YC China and Qi Lu
You don't have to serve the government.

If you refuse to serve Chinese people, that's another level of the story.

If you think serving people in China is somehow helping the government, you are somehow admitting the legitimacy of the government.

Is it ethical that doing business in Five Eye countries?

Is providing tools/services to the people considered unethical comparing to providing none?

What about free services that everyone including the Chinese can access via Internet? Are they unethical because they didn't block the Chinese?

Thoughts?

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