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dabber··on Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
Are you referring to what happened with motherless? If so, using a non-US-based registrar probably wouldn't have made a difference in that case. The court order that took the domain offline targeted the .com registry operated by Verisign, not any individual registrar.
dabber··on This blog is written in en-GB
Family relationships are the first thing that come to my mind.

In Spanish for example, consuegro and consuegra refer to the father and mother of your child's spouse.

The Spanish words succinctly encode that relationship while English requires verbally traversing the family tree.

dabber··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
The original person didn't say "I wrote this non-trivial software", they said "I built Velo".
dabber··on Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
> If anybody knows someone involved in GrapheneOS, we'd really like to get their perspective on modern mobile platform hardening.

A few of them seem to be pretty active in GrapheneOS related threads here. strcat for example.

dabber··on Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
> If anybody knows someone involved in GrapheneOS, we'd really like to get their perspective on modern mobile platform hardening. I will repay them in Monsanto Roundup-Ready(tm) gift certificates.
dabber··on Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/28/u...
dabber··on Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
> It’s articles (not papers) _about_ LLMs that are the problem, not papers written _by_ LLMs

No, not really. From the blog post:

> In the past few years, arXiv has been flooded with papers. Generative AI / large language models have added to this flood by making papers – especially papers not introducing new research results – fast and easy to write. While categories across arXiv have all seen a major increase in submissions, it’s particularly pronounced in arXiv’s CS category. > [...] > Fast forward to present day – submissions to arXiv in general have risen dramatically, and we now receive hundreds of review articles every month. The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues.

dabber··on Ask HN: Changing my mind about JavaScript
I'm surprised that Kyle Simpson's, _You Don't Know JS_ hasn't been mentioned in this thread.

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

When I was beginning to develop a deeper understanding of JS a few years ago, that book, Kyle's talks, and conference presentations by Chrome's V8 team were very helpful for me. It looks like Kyle has expanded the content considerably since then too.

dabber··on No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data
No, I saw that. My comment was a poorly worded attempt to suggest that, as a renter, they can certainly choose to avoid it by moving just as they chose to avoid the other apparents they evaluated but never moved into.

They're not forced into anything.

dabber··on No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data
> I'm just a renter; I get no say in the matter.

Surely you evaluated alternative apartments before deciding to rent at the one you are currently in, right?

dabber··on Things I know about Git commits
Defaults for each option of anyone is curious:

> gc.reflogexpire

90 days

> gc.reflogexpireunreachable

30 days

dabber··on Show HN: Tailwind Template Directory
I'd love to love MUI, but in my experience: MUI + React + Typescript just moves the toil of doing anything away from the style concerns and makes it a purely Typescript puzzle.
dabber··on BeyondCorp (2014)
> Any other important projects I am missing?

Cloudflare Zero Trust:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/

dabber··on Reading awc
I had the same question as the person you replied to, and these excellent examples really made it click for me. Especially the second one. Thanks for sharing.
dabber··on Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content
mjml looks really interesting, thanks for sharing. I wish there was a business reason for orgs to care about accessable and machine readable (I guess OCR is a thing now but still) emails.

I've been using Foundation for Emails[1] for the very small number of emails that I've worked on which required more than just a list of img tags, and I really appreciate it for existing because HTML emails have been stuck in ie6 web days.

[1]: https://get.foundation/emails.html

dabber··on Exploit.education
http://gracker.org/ is neat. More puzzle than tutorial though.
dabber··on Everything Curl
It definitely depends on the preferences of the project but GutHub issues for feature requests is fairly common. For a long time, GH didn't have a better place for them.

These days the "discussions" feature can be enabled and some projects prefer feature requests be added there. This repo has it turned on, but idk what their preference is for requests:

https://github.com/curl/everything-curl/discussions

dabber··on Please don't share our links on Mastodon
Cloudflare has some other features like a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and bot protection/filtering (which seems like it would solve their problems too?)

From the article:

> Presently, we use Cloudflare as our CDN or WAF, as it is a widely adopted solution.

To me, it sounds like the author isn't really familiar with the difference between a CDN and WAF is; or familiar with Cloudflare beyond it being a popular thing they should probably have for that matter.

dabber··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
Sure, but I'm not a doctor and anyone who is living in an area that I'm speaking to will understand what I wrote and those that don't (perhaps yourself included) might learn a new colloquial phrase given the context of the comment.
dabber··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
I've had it three times as a kid and the most recent one didn't produce a "bulls eye" rash. I knew what it was by then and went to the doctor, symptomatic, telling them that I had limes, but they hadn't seen it before and told me I had the flu.

I got a second opinion with blood work that came back positive for limes.

So if you have "the flu" symptoms around a time you were had been running around grassy area where limes is a thing, ask for blood work.

dabber··on Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing it again, I guess I missed the original Share HN.
dabber··on usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
Hah, yes I definitely fumbled on the math there. Thanks for re-articulating what I was trying to get across much better than I did!
dabber··on usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
> Possibly because a developer hired to write something around usbip would cost a lot less. https://usbip.sourceforge.net/

Would it? For the sake of discussion, I'll assume "thousands of raspberry pi's" = 2,000 RBpis, or something around $10,000 in license fees.

I don't know anything about either project beyond the links shared by you and the root comment, but based on the information at each link and the assumption of $10,000 spend:

I would choose the one time cost of VirtualHere's purpetual update license and release cadence over a some short dev for hire contract to write some unmaintained wrapper code around a sourceforge library that hasn't been been touched in over a decade.

dabber··on Ask HN: For those with a successful Show HN, what happened next?
> I would like to see what percentage of show hn actually link to an unabandonded website.

Someone shared this post titled "Track HN: Survival Rate of Show HN Stories" about 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313562

Side note: I hope you find that interesting because searching for a post I only vaguely remembered using the only two search terms I could think of: "Show HN" and "analysis" was a fairly frustrating endeavor.

dabber··on Python Cloudflare Workers
> This is kind of a game changer for running AI stuff on Cloudflare.

That certainly appears to be the intention.

> Been hoping for this for a while now.

You should check out the other two announcements from today as well if you haven't yet:

"Leveling up Workers AI: General Availability and more new capabilities"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-ai-ga-huggingface-loras-...

"Running fine-tuned models on Workers AI with LoRAs"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/fine-tuned-inference-with-loras

dabber··on 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
That's hilarious. I found the DDG results to be more illustrative of your point though:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22R%2C+Python%2C+SLQ%2C+etc%22&ia...

dabber··on How SSH port became 22 (2017)
You can start with the IANA list [0]. You won't find posts like this listed but it should be a good place to start regardless.

[0]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...

dabber··on Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
> Yes. Google had a number of chip products before that.

Is that true? I can't find anything suggesting it is. In fact, the little I can find suggests you are incorrect. I'll link them for the sake of referencing sources but they're both pretty awful ad-ridden sites...

A 2016 Tech Radar interview [0] with Norm Jouppi has him quoted as saying:

> [The] Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is our first custom accelerator ASIC [application-specific integrated circuit] for machine learning [ML], and it fits in the same footprint as a hard drive.

And a 2023 Tom's hardware post [1] begins:

> Google has made significant progress in its endeavor to develop its own data center chips, according to a new report. The Information says that a key milestone has just been reached, which means that Google can plan to roll out server systems powered by the new chips starting from 2025.This is not the first processor that Google has successfully put through R&D - the company has previously made an ASIC for servers and an SoC for mobile devices. The search giant started using its internally developed Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as far back as 2015.

[0]: https://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processo...

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-reaches-self-develo...

dabber··on React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good
> as a relative newbie to web dev (with limited time and focus), is Next.js my way to go?

Obviously "it depends (TM)" on a bunch of things but for most of those things, Next.js is a safe bet, sure.

It's a (the?) leader in the React framework space and the ecosystem reflects that (e.g. most problems or decisions a newbie would run into is likely to have a trove of docs/blogs/tutorials/ect. available to get past them quickly, plenty of options for hosting, marketable as a skill if that's what you're into, fine DevEx all things considered, it'll likely be around for quite some time even if vercel shuts down tomorrow.) The same is true for React.

I'd personally go with Remix though :)

dabber··on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
So do I! Podcast Index is one of the built-in indexes in the Podcast Addict app's search feature; that's how I discovered it!
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