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The 4 indicates UUIDv4.

If you were looking for the biggest hexadecimal UUID, find one with f instead of 9.

ajsfoux234on Who made millions trading the October 7th attacks?

The article does not provide any direct evidence that trades were made with knowledge of the attacks. Also see a refutal at https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67628380

ajsfoux234on We are investigating reports of degraded performance

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/ has some repositories archived.

ajsfoux234on The .meta directory: let's tidy things up

The XDG spec appears to be specifying user-wide/system-wide configuration files, but the post is about organizing files specific to an individual project or repository.

ajsfoux234on Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans

A comic from xkcd visualizes this fact: https://xkcd.com/1338/

ajsfoux234on SHA-3 Buffer Overflow

The vulnerability impacts 'the "official" SHA-3 implementation'. How widely used is it for SHA-3 hashing compared to something like OpenSSL?

ajsfoux234on EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers

> The overall traffic quickly snowballed from a couple of terabytes per day to 10-20 times that amount.

A 1000Mbps server could only serve 10.8TB, and that's not even accounting for overhead/daily usage patterns/etc

ajsfoux234on Archaeologists unearth the lost tomb of Genghis Khan

This is fake news. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Burial_place_of_Genghis_K...

There appear to be many websites copying this article and then later vanishing or redirecting to scam sites.

ajsfoux234on Has tiktok_us been breached?

The original submission link was https://twitter.com/AggressiveCurl/status/156616119824850944... , it was changed since this comment was posted

ajsfoux234on How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices

This doesn't have much of an 'evidence trail' but I thought last year's court filing about the Maryland nuclear engineer was interesting: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-nuclear-engineer-and... (click on the "Download Toebbe Complaint" link to see the full PDF)

ajsfoux234on Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE

The only recent comment I could find about raytracing on calculators on /g/ mentions a TI-86, and was posted after this repo was created, but before it was posted on HN (I used a 4chan archive to search for the comment): https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/85596005/2-cores-4-thre...

ajsfoux234on This needs some heavy checking... (line 1029)

That commit seems to include all the code written before 2005. The commit message notes that it doesn't bother including the full history.

ajsfoux234on ArchiveTeam Warrior backing up Reddit

TLSNotary tries to solve this problem: https://tlsnotary.org/

It was posted here a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29090604

ajsfoux234on ArchiveTeam Warrior backing up Reddit

Where does ArchiveTeam find all the reddit posts and comments to archive? Do they have a script automatically going through the "New" section or are they finding posts through Google or link crawling?

ajsfoux234on Ask HN: Why were a few rank numbers black on the homepage?

For me, there were four black-colored stories on the front page, and the fifth black-colored story was #56 on the second page.

ajsfoux234on [dead]

Clicking on the live stream could increase its engagement and make YouTube recommend it more.

ajsfoux234on NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)

The PDF linked to in the post: https://web.archive.org/web/20181123120243/www.insidemathema... (the original link is dead)

Also, I wonder if posting a photo of the work with pencil annotations violates the CC NoDerivatives license.

ajsfoux234on DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014)

There is: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It seems that the submitter hasn't applied it

ajsfoux234on Latest Mozilla VPN features

A few use-cases I can think of: GeoIP spoofing (watching streaming shows not available in your country), bypassing IP bans from places, preventing DMCA letters from torrenting, and getting past restrictive firewalls that block websites

ajsfoux234on We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks

There's the Multipath TCP protocol for use cases like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP

For example, Apple already uses it when you ask Siri a question on an iOS device. Hopefully this standard gains more usage.

ajsfoux234on Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic

A more accurate analogy based on the relationship between gQUIC and IETF QUIC would be that an early non-released version of the iPhone is vulnerable to an attack.

ajsfoux234on Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter

Is any monetization planned?

ajsfoux234on Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder

Well, the same thing might happen with Rocky Linux as well :)

ajsfoux234on Is Apple Silicon Ready?

The blog post that announces Cloudflare's current builds [1] says they "looked very seriously at ARM-based CPUs and continue to keep our software up to date for the ARM architecture so that we can use ARM-based CPUs when the requests per watt is interesting to us"

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-of-why-cloudfl...