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zyxzkzon "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

He's saying echo without an argument emits a newline, so use -n to suppress it.

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zyxzkzon San Francisco’s Skyline, Now Inescapably Transformed by Tech

Wow, guy is setting up franchises... San Francisco has its own McTech building now.

zyxzkzon Bitcoin Is a Terrible Currency, and Not for the Reason You May Think

Bitcoin has always been the game of finding the greater sucker... now more than ever.

zyxzkzon Perkeep – Open-source data modeling, storing, search, sharing and synchronizing

I was gonna say, this sounds like Camlistore.

zyxzkzon Toward Go 2

That's an awesome trick, using angle brackets that aren't angle brackets!

zyxzkzon MIT’s gas-powered drone is able to stay in the air for five days at a time

As long as the inventor gets to DRINK FROM THE FIREHOSE!

zyxzkzon Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

This seems like a ridiculously paranoid worldview to have.

zyxzkzon We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with the Better Ads Standards

I guess we'll find out if Internet content disappears because of a lack of "Gotcha!" advertising.

My guess is that the Internet will be just fine.

zyxzkzon Worldwide tablet shipments have declined 8.5%

The laptop is like the perfect tablet... compact, more powerful, comes with its own built-in keyboard AND screen stand.

What more could you want?

zyxzkzon Show HN: FuelDOM – A React-compatible virtual DOM implementation

I don't think the problem with React is with the DOM aspect, it's state management and persistence where things get bogged down conceptually.

zyxzkzon VPNs Are Absolutely a Solution to a Policy Problem

No, you're absolutely wrong. Look at the vote.

Don't bring that weak Whataboutism here.

zyxzkzon Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

Okay, thanks.

zyxzkzon Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

Can you elaborate?

zyxzkzon Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

I always liked that movie...

zyxzkzon Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

Which one should you read first?

zyxzkzon Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers

Same here. I always assumed buying direct from Amazon I was buying products sourced directly by them.

zyxzkzon Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers

When I followed your link it says:

Sold by MSP Sales LLC and Fulfilled by Amazon.

zyxzkzon Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

Another fun angle to consider. Ocean acidification leading to a die-off of phytoplankton (the oxygen tank of the Earth, basically).

This could cause a global asphyxiation event.

zyxzkzon Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack

I sorta hate that React is so simple and the ecosystem is such a clusterf*ck.

I wish they came out with a storage/persistence system as simple conceptually as the renderer.

Maybe that's a lot to ask for though.

React by itself gives me blue balls.

zyxzkzon Rust's 2017 Roadmap

Man, if developing programming languages was this easy, we should have done it years ago!

zyxzkzon Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?

It doesn't help that CPAN is an archaic module system with a user interface (PAUSE) straight out of 1995.

zyxzkzon 'Expanse' Co-Creator on Writing, Star Citizen, and Why He Hated Mass Effect 3

2037 will be a great year for games for sure.

zyxzkzon I cannot continue working on my add-ons

Yes, I've faced similar issues in the past, and had to update my add-on to get it working again.

Now it looks like it will once again break (this time permanently).

I'm in the same boat with other folks. Why use Firefox if it's just a poor man's Chrome clone?

zyxzkzon Facebook Tweaks Its 'Trending Topics' Algorithm to Better Reflect Real News

Back in the good 'ol days of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork

zyxzkzon Show HN: Ship 2.0 – A macOS Native Interface to GitHub Issues

So..., why did you have to install the webhooks in the first place?

zyxzkzon First they came for the Iranians

It's a political thing. Oil is a fungible resource. Saudi Arabia helps control the market. US doesn't want to lose that power by pissing them off.

As oil goes, so goes the world.

zyxzkzon Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich

Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guXaWwQpe4

zyxzkzon KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX

Why not change the name entirely, then? KeepassX is already a terrible one.

Makes me think of DOS software from 1998.

zyxzkzon Updates to our Google Voice apps

I have a similar story.

Google really had momentum. They bungled it terribly. I just use an iPhone now. It works, no bloatware, no bullshit, no need for useless tweaks.

I should have switched years ago.