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l1n··on Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
http://youtube.github.io/spfjs/ seems like it does much of this for me
l1n··on Scientists discover secret to waking up alert and refreshed
Too spammy, didn't click? Here's the kicker: "substantial exercise the previous day, sleeping longer and later into the morning, and eating a breakfast high in complex carbohydrates, with limited sugar"
l1n··on Scientists rediscover an insect thought to be extinct for 80 years
The Lord is rising up from under the bloodwood tree,

He gave new life to you, the Wood-feeding cockroachy,

Sent down his angels with feathery antennae,

Who emerged to say the roaches aren't lost to history,

'Scending tree bark stairs.

Hey la, hey la, the roaches are back.

'Scending tree bark stairs.

Hey la, hey la, the roaches are back!

l1n··on OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes X.509 email address buffer overflows
Sounds like this is mostly caught by stack overflow protections. From the release blog:

Firstly, we had reports that on certain Linux distributions the stack layout was such that the 4 bytes overwrote an adjacent buffer that was yet to be used and therefore there was no crash or ability to cause remote code execution.

Secondly, many modern platforms implement stack overflow protections which would mitigate against the risk of remote code execution and usually lead to a crash instead.

However as OpenSSL is distributed as source code we have no way of knowing how every platform and compiler combination has arranged the buffers on the stack and therefore remote code execution may still be possible on some platforms.

l1n··on Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having
https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter/ adds a lot of these UX tweaks.
l1n··on Disk Prices
I prefer https://shucks.top/ which often indexes very good deals, if you're willing to crack open the casing to extract the juicy drive within.
l1n··on Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
looks like they just use system malloc: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/base/+/master...
l1n··on [dead]
[2014]
l1n··on Extracting Audio from Visual Information
Needs a [2014] in the title.
l1n··on Sea creatures pollinate marine plants and algae
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add3198 direct link to the paper
l1n··on [dead]
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/894983562133119016/10... direct link to the video
l1n··on I got fired for sharing my salary on TikTok
Meta note: it's been disappointing seeing a bunch of NY Post articles on HN, not sure why this is particularly newsworthy and even if it was, it seems available elsewhere.
l1n··on How to drive away your best engineers
Link is incorrect, should be https://blog.hulacorn.com/2021/09/08/how-to-drive-away-your-... @dang
l1n··on WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency
Straight lines on log-log plots.
l1n··on We're going to need a lot of solar panels
Because their value prop is to generate synthetic fuel instead.
l1n··on Launch HN: Bend (YC S22) – Automatically measure your company's carbon footprint
If any of that spend is at a cloud provider, it's an opaque, highly variable blob. How do you plan to deal with that?
l1n··on UK set to have automated drone superhighway
Zipline (https://www.flyzipline.com/) seems to be doing this well in their specific market niche.
l1n··on ‘Things are going to break’: Texas power plants are running nonstop
Yep: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/15/crypto-energy-texas-...
l1n··on T-Mobile CDMA network shutting down soon
My recommendation for navigating the CPUC for a particular case is to follow the case number (in this case A1807011) via http://subscribecpuc.cpuc.ca.gov/fpss/ (which sends email notifications). The transcript of the 09-20 hearing is at https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M411/K194/... (310 pages), the T-Mobile post-trial brief at https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M417/K418/... (123 pages) and the DISH post-trial brief reply at https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M420/K303/... (47 pages). This last brief was filed November 4th (25 days ago), and there has been no further action by the administrative judge that I've seen.
l1n··on A new brain implant automatically detects and kills pain in real time
Source paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00736-7
l1n··on Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner
They do hash IPs before sending them.
l1n··on Neural Actor: Neural Free-View Synthesis of Human Actors with Pose Control
I really really wish that there was a norm of uploading code at the same time as the paper. The number of "code coming soon!" buttons on these sorts of sites (oftentimes several years in the past) is far too high. If you can't play around with the model, how can you tell the level of cherry-picking that the method has?
l1n··on Amulet – a short poem with a lucky SHA-256 hash
I wrote a Discord bot for this: https://fletcher.fun/amulet, it filters all messages for amulets and tells you the sha and rarity if you find one. Example one we found: https://diff.substack.com/p/an-airline-ipo-in-this-economy Common amulet (75b8af8579d81ba3bac788bb118fa78888717eb55c5faf778ea756750c02837d)
l1n··on A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)
https://hnrss.org/ provides a bunch of them!
l1n··on A new way to use tabs in Chrome
Firefox had this for years and then deprecated it in favor of the TabHiding WebExtension API. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr... and it works quite well for my use cases.
l1n··on “I, along with almost all of Disney Imagineering, am furloughed without pay”
As with all HN submissions, this is archived over at archive.is: http://archive.is/https:/twitter.com/lemonodor/status/124797...
l1n··on PG&E Had Systemic Problems with Power Line Maintenance, California Probe Finds
ftp://ftp.cpuc.ca.gov/News_and_Outreach/I1906015%20Appendix%20A%20SED%20Camp%20Fire%20Investigation%20Report%20REDACTED.pdf for a link
l1n··on Show HN: Mac toolbar app to show electricity cutoff schedule
I've done similar things using https://getbitbar.com/ + https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli
l1n··on Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra
Possible alternative for self-hosted applications: https://github.com/huginn/huginn/
l1n··on Make More Land
If you're interested in reading more about the value of studying halophilic achaeons: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/extreme-microbes
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