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super256on Omnisearch – A lightweight metasearch engine written in C

A meta search engine queries other search engines and aggregates the results. See searx or dogpile.com.

super256on Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message

With which workspace solution did they end up with?

super256on YC's Biggest Scandals

http://30u30.fyi

http://termsofservice.fyi

http://ycombinator.fyi

All their sites are similar slop.

super256on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

In space you get bit flips fairly quickly when using very small transistors. You would have to run stuff on fairly old hardware, which probably makes the whole thing economically inefficient for serious "computation in space".

super256on Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

Looks like Cloudflare has the only user friendly captcha of them all.

super256on Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize

You can easily change the theme by changing the css variables. You might want to take a look at https://tweakcn.com/

super256on Framework Laptop 13 Pro

Some laptops do become unusable once they start thermal throttling. I have an Matebook X Pro (2020, the one with i7) which throttles to the point where I can't even properly write code in VSC anymore (I do only light web apps).

super256on Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

80 characters limit in the title.

super256on ChatGPT Images 2.0

I tried using it for creating 2D logos, which many tools suck at (except mid journey).

Looks like ChatGPT Images 2 is now good at this too!

super256on Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It

That is true! The sums got bigger and the market for crypto is more liquid than for PSC.

super256on Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It

Don't worry, ransomware already existed before BTC. The ransomware demanded Ukash and Paysafecard instead.

super256on Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

>It isn't a product-led acquisition, but more a talent one.

I am pretty sure OAI mostly cares about their virtualization IP for MacOS. They already extensively use WSL2 for sandboxing Codex on Windows, and I imagine they want something similar for Codex on Mac.

super256on Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd

It's a chain mail for server admins.

super256on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

I felt fatigued after the second paragraph. All these LLM tropes chained together are horrible to read.

super256on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do

Game theory can be applied to these problem, and if you can correctly model reward, cost and motives, you can predict decisions of politicians more often than not.

super256on Nasdaq's Shame

I didn't mention retail traders anywhere. With arbitrage traders I mean those companies who do hft all the time and are directly connected to exchanges. They still do business.

super256on Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

I had to deal with Java codegens from UML specs in 2021. So, nothing has changed! :')

super256on Nasdaq's Shame

>I don’t think Nasdaq is free float based.

I recommend the NDX proposal from February which the whole discussion is based upon:

"To balance index integrity and investability, Nasdaq proposes a new approach for including and weighting low-float securities (those below 20% free float). Each low-float security’s weight will be adjusted to five times its free float percentage, capped at 100%. Securities with more than 20% free float will continue to be weighted at full, eligible listed market capitalization, while those below 20% free float will be weighted proportionally to preserve investability."

The document includes a scenario with the rules applied to SpaceX. "Company C" in the table is SpaceX (with some estimated numbers).

https://indexes.nasdaqomx.com/docs/NDX_Consultation-February...

super256on Nasdaq's Shame

This is wrong in multiple ways.

First: 5x5 is 25, not 20. So it's 25% rather than 20%

Second: they only have to buy the 25% of the listed shares.

To take your 1 Trillion example: if SpaceX has a total market cap of 1T, but only 500b get listed on NASDAQ, and the free float is 5%, the index will weigh SpaceX at 25% of the listed shares, which means it will be weighted at 500 * 0.25 = 125b.

And also note that index ETFs have tracking errors all the time (that's why arbitrage traders still have business!), and the ETFs themselves could also track the performance of SpaceX via derivatives instead of buying the stock. And I think, there are many investors of SpaceX who would like to sell some shares. Fund managers won't have an issue finding their phone numbers.

super256on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

I don't think sabotaging a company just because you don't want to work with a certain framework and deploy it on k8s is a good idea.

super256on WSL Manager

No, this is wrong.

WSL2 distributions share the same Linux kernel. They only get their own root filesystem with a Linux userland (/bin, /usr, /lib etc), and some WSL config meta data. This is then stored as a virtual disk image (which is probably where your belief comes from). But the kernel runs in a single utility VM. The distros share that kernel instance and they are separated via namespaces only.

This makes running multiple WSL2 distributions in parallel very performant btw, as there is no world switch.

super256on F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

Every accepted PR for supporting insecure phones eventually becomes a maintenance burden, and potentially a security vulnerability. If they don't want to spend time on it, it's okay to decline such PRs.

super256on Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

1) this reads like it's posted by an LLM

2) why could they not just up the prices for new deployments, like they did with their dedicated servers? I think that would be fairer to existing customers

If you have a company, I can recommend leaseweb for cheap hosting. I host my personal stuff like my email and my ente.io instance there. They are cheaper than Hetzner (already before the new price increase) if you don't need managed k8s.

super256on Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

You don't even need to do requests if you are the owner of the URL. Robot.txt changes are applied in retrospect, which means you can disallow crawls to /abc, request a re-crawl, and all snapshots from the past which match this new rule will be removed.

super256on Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

I prefer archive.today because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine allows retrospective removals of archived pages. If a URL has already been crawled and archived, the site owner can later add that URL to robots.txt and request a re-crawl. Once the crawler detects the updated robots.txt, previously stored snapshots of that page can become inaccessible, even if they were captured before the rule was added.

Unfortunately this happens more often than one would expect.

I found this out when I preserved my very first homepage I made as a child on a free hosting service. I archived it on archive.org, and thought it would stay there forever. Then, in 2017 the free host changed the robots.txt, closed all services, and my treasured memory was forever gone from the internet. ;(

super256on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

OpenAI forces users to verify with their ID + face scan when using Codex 5.3 if any of your conversations was redeemed as high risk.

It seems like they currently have a lot of false positives: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues?q=High%20risk

super256on NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

Apparently they forked the extractor some years ago and have been maintaining it independently, without merging anything from the original branch.

super256on NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

I found pipepipe to be more stable, break less and have more features.

https://pipepipe.dev/

super256on Valve's job rejection letter to a high school teen is a class act

Positive Publicity. Valve does many things that are received poorly (e.g. cancelling counterstrike fan projects, intransparent lootbox gambling, etc.), but they are doing enough good things that such things are quickly forgotten.

super256on The Codex App

Also, modern native UIs became looking garbage on desktops / laptops, where you usually want a high information density.

Just look at this TreeView in WinUI2 (w/ fluent design) vs a TreeView in the good old event viewer. It just wastes SO MUCH space!

https://f003.backblazeb2.com/file/sharexxx/ShareX/2026/02/mm...

And imo it's just so much easier to write a webapp, than fiddle with WinUI. Of course you can still build on MFC or Win32, but meh.