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ignoranceprioron Entire website in a single HTML file

I wonder whether, upon clicking the links, there is any indication about the change in visible content.

ignoranceprioron All hyped up for Hypercard: further adventures with an Apple legacy format

Link should end with '.html', not '.htm':

http://www.art.net/studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/hyperlook/ind...

ignoranceprioron The Bongcloud Attack

If you are playing as white and know in advance black is going to play the bongcloud, then 2. Qh5 is forced mate.

i.e. 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Ke7 3. Qxe5#

ignoranceprioron Ask HN: Why do Greek or Russian characters get URL encoded?

I think technically a URL/URI is only supposed to contain ASCII characters, and certain things that expect URL input will want ASCII only. However, all modern browsers can convert from Unicode to punycode (in the domain name) and percent-encoding (in the path). So I don't really understand why browsers only let you copy the percent-encoded form easily.

ignoranceprioron Ask HN: Why do Greek or Russian characters get URL encoded?

Try going to e.g. https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BF...

When visiting the page (at least on Firefox), the location bar displays the intended characters, but when copying it you get the percent-encoded form. If the reason for percent-encoding was just to make scams more obvious, shouldn't the form shown in the browser interface also be URL-encoded?

By the way, it seems like that is a much stronger argument when applied to domian names than when applied to the part of the URL after the slash.

ignoranceprioron China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization

The USSR was not part of the Axis. Quite the opposite. (Although they did have a non-aggression pact with Germany before the start of the war, that did not last long.)

Which just goes to show that many Americans aren't really aware of how the Soviets were crucial to winning that war.

ignoranceprioron Why does NARA post a language warning for Bill of Rights?

They seem to have that warning on every single page of catalog.archives.gov. That solution seems much easier than figuring out whether each individual item requires a warning or not.

ignoranceprioron Ask HN: Is Archive.today Down?

archive.md works for me

ignoranceprioron Ask HN: What are the disadvantages of using less popular TLDs like .sh or .xyz?

- Non-tech-savvy users might not instantly recognize example.xyz as a domain name. When you discuss your site in person, you might have to explain the TLD, whereas with .com, .net, .org, this isn't an issue.

- If the same domain name but with a more popular TLD exists, people might accidentally go there instead.

- Some outdated validation code (such as a regex to match valid email addresses) might not recognize the TLD, especially if it's one of the long ones. I'm not sure if this problem actually exists, but it could.

ignoranceprioron Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal

Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1263/

ignoranceprioron Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin–Hall_distribution

ignoranceprioron Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien

If Star Trek taught me anything, it's that most aliens look like humans, except for some bumps on their forehead. Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development.

ignoranceprioron Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades

I'd be curious to see how sentiment analysis of contemporary writing has changed over time. That would be easier to interpret than this metric too.

ignoranceprioron GitHub Co-Pilot 404's

https://copilot.github.com

ignoranceprioron Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

COVID might be the worst infectious disease in recent memory, but it is far from the worst disease in history.

ignoranceprioron Ask HN: Which will come first 1B followers or 1T dollars?

Ronaldo, the soccer/football player

ignoranceprioron Ask HN: Will access to computational power be the next class struggle?

Yeah, computational capital is just a special case of capital in general, albeit one that will likely be highly important going forward.

ignoranceprioron Why GitHub Copilot is not a Treat for your Job

"Treat for" or "Threat to"?

ignoranceprioron RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops

> Use old english language

Hwæt, weardmann! Hwæt is sēo ġedrēfednes?

ignoranceprioron Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

If I had to guess, I would say Black+ means anyone who has Black heritage, even if mixed. But it could be a sexual orientation thing too.

ignoranceprioron Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

What does the "+" in "Black+" and "White+" mean?

ignoranceprioron The last and only foreign scientist in the Wuhan lab speaks out

Is there a non-paywalled version?

ignoranceprioron Ask HN: How do you search by url on hn.algolia.com?

Well, it's possible with the API if you use:

http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=bar&restrictSearch...

ignoranceprioron How do you search when the search terms has been dominated by a site?

Is there any common term between the site and its affiliates that you could exclude using the minus operator?

ignoranceprioron How do I detect what my string is encoded or encrypted with?

If you remember what tool you used to generate or access the wallet, maybe that would help?

Maybe it's something related to Base58 format, which seems to be common for bitcoin keys? If it's Base58, then it should not contain the characters 0, O, 1, or I.

ignoranceprioron NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

Not sure if serious or joking. Poe's law.

ignoranceprioron GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement

If the evil version 3.1 is more restrictive than previous versions, then you are right to say people could just ignore it. However, if evil version 3.1 is more permissive, for an extreme example say they changed it to a verbatim copy of WTFPL, then there would be nothing stopping people from creating a proprietary fork of the project, the very thing copyleft was designed to prevent.

ignoranceprioron Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

And Wikimedia.

ignoranceprioron Cryptocurrency company accidentally sends users millions in Bitcoin

Does the BTC legally belong to the company, or the users, if it was given by mistake? Would they be within their rights to sue for it to be restored?

I'm assuming it works the same way as for errors involving fiat currency, but I'm not clear on what the law says in that situation either.