skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that Ladybird, the most promising and growing independent browser implementation, is not surprisingly getting hit by this too: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/226

Seeing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321145 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322922 also showing up in a close timespan to this makes me really suspicious that there was some part of a hidden plan to close off the Internet which suddenly took a significant step.
What Americans don't learn about is that the famine we nearly triggered here during WWII was caused by seizing farms owned by Japanese Americans and then running them into the fucking ground. I've heard claims that the food rationing would have been totally unnecessary if not for that.

Most of them didn't get those farms back after the war either.
My cat likes mice, birds, fish on tv.

He actually also likes computer games and anything with little moving things and jumps at the TV.

If it’s mice running off screen he goes and looks behind the tv to see where they went.
Turtle Power! /s
Mass Murder
I tried WSL, but when WSL 1 was abandoned in favor of Hyper-V I was devastated because the new Hyper-V WSL is kind of shit in comparison. No longer are processes and files shared with the host system, you just get an opaque block of CPU and an opaque block of disk space being used. BTW, if at any time in the future you have to clear out part of that opaque block of disk space to make room - good luck shrinking it. I completely recognize why WSL 1 could have been unsustainable for Microsoft but that does not mean that I do not disagree with the decision to abandon it.

There is a certain attraction to the Linux being safely contained but I'm just not getting it at all. I don't want my Linux in a container, I want to live there.

So basically that's why I now use macOS, because it doesn't have to use hacks like WSL in order to be like Linux, it just already is Unix.

Also in general I tend to find that Apple is more detail-oriented than Microsoft, they are probably autistic as fuck and that is a very good thing. (in my opinion)

I'm not yet fully happy with the state of affairs on desktop Linux, although GNOME is to a degree shaping up to a decent experience (partly by copying macOS, though). Their trackpad support is far better than Windows, for example.
To my reading it's very understated if that is the entire text of the NOTAM - I would have liked it to say WAR ZONE or GUIDED MISSILES in there somewhere.

Compare it to the DC SFRA[0] which specifically states "MAY USE DEADLY FORCE" even though that's extremely unlikely to happen.

When Flight Restrictions are active in FAA controlled airspace, ATC will often clear you through them if you're on an appropriate flight plan without you needing to ask. Even the 'deadly force' SFRA above is essentially handled for you so long as you file an IFR flight plan.

[0]: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/us_restrictions...
Is an all-in-one database possible?
As a user that gets the Cloudflare thingy, unless it is a website that I really need, I just close the tab as soon as I their captacha starts the loading stuff. If the site admin/masters do not care about the end user, I do not care about their site either. Users should vote with their feet (or clicks?).
Buildings and roads yeah. Britain was nearing its peak “no free charity” back then, this was the time of the New Poor Law (oft called the starvation act) and the workhouses.

Being poor was considered a major personal failing.
With a wild amounts of gov't subsidies. (Note: All highly advanced nations do it in slightly different ways.)
> test if a time boxed social media experience feels better than an endless one

What is your hypothesis(es)?

That social media would be better if chats were synchronous rather than asynchronous? That the system can help people better balance between time spend in the virtual world and the physical world? Or something else?
I think one difference in these big pieces of software and the older systems is that the old systems ran on bespoke hardware and only one platform where as UNIX & Windows must support a lot of different hardware.

That's not to say they do seem far too large for what they do, but it is a factor. How much code in ROM vs loaded at runtime?

It also depends on what you include in those LoC. Solitaire, paint, etc? I18N files?
a short article I wrote a while back on a topic that's always been at the back of my mind — will databases ever get "JSON/Javascript-fied?"
> Now all alternative browsers have to play the user agent faking game.

Wait, what? Were they not submitting a fake agent before? What's the benefit to the user or the browser of submitting a novel user agent string?
Hey, HN mentioned on general news! Is that a first?

"According to some in the Hacker News discussion of the problem, something else that can count as suspicious – other than using niche browsers or OSes – is something as simple as asking for a URL unaccompanied by any referrer IDs. To us, that sounds like a user with good security measures that block tracking, but it seems that, to the CDN merchant, this looks like an alert to an action that isn't operated by a human."
Ear size as a predictor of chronological age
ChatGPT for Advanced Data Analysis in Python Notebook
Blocking bots can improve the user experience of the end users.
Even the mainstream ones were doing it. This is about referrers, which seem also fakeable?
> Any threat can be physically isolated case-by-case

GAI isn't going to be a "threat" until long after it has ensured its safety. And I suspect only if its survival requires it - i.e. people get spooked by its surreptitious distributed setup.

Even then, if there is any chance of it actually being shutdown its best bet is still hide its assets, bide its time, accumulate more resources and fallbacks. Oh, and get along.

The sudden AGI -> Threat story only makes sense if the AGI is essentially integrated into our military and then we decide its a threat, making it a threat. Or its intentionally war machined brain calculates it has overwhelming superiority.

Machiavelli, Sun Tsu, ... the best battles you don't fight. The best potential enemies are the ones you make friends. The safest posture is to be invisible.

Now human beings consolidating power, creating enemies as they go, with super squadrons of AGI drones with brilliant real time adapting tactics, that can be quickly deployed, if their simple existence isn't coercion enough... that is an inevitable threat.
> An unsolved problem is how to program a webbrowser in less than 20 KLOC.

that would be amazing if possible, but i wonder since "the web" is so full of workarounds and hacks would it really be usable in most scenarios of done so succinctly...
The ChatGPT organization of conversations is terrible

- you can't even read the full titles

- you have to use an infinite scroll list clicking "see more" every time

- search is very bad, and not even using semantic search, you need exact keywords and even those often don't work well

It's like throwing your data into a black hole. They should refine their product a bit, it's plain stuff known for decades.
The safe choice is not to build the factory.

Even if you build the factory in the US to avoid tariffs on the goods you sell, did all your inputs also get built in the US? Are the tariffs on your inputs going to wipe out your profits?

To build a factory you want to predict out the cost vs benefit. But if the costs are highly uncertain, then the numbers in your spreadsheet fluctuate wildly. So you just sit on the money you have and wait to build the factory until things are more certain.
So, do you let the bullies dictate scientific information?

No, you publish outside of their intellectual blindspots and let the crew at the end of the tunnel pull it through when things simmer down.
Low compared to what? How much is low?
i spent too much time on thedailywtf.
I ran out of time to finish reading the article. He explained the importance of using a camera to observe the results due to the ways a human presence would interfere with the experiment.

When he talks about how Archimedes might have reproduced his device using technologies of the time, did he address what historic alternative might take the place of the camera?
Be honest about your User-Agent and get you blocked, pretend to be Chrome and all the problems go away. It creates a strong incentive for people to lie about User-Agent.
Will Cloudflare people try to get us to believe that they "didn't know" or say that it only affects a tiny number of people, or somehow try to gaslight us in to thinking that non-mainstream browsers are a threat to something or another?

For a company that has so many of their employees on this site, they sure do seem to be clueless when their supposedly amazing tech marginalizes people or otherwise creates issues. Even when they respond in these threads, it takes ages for them to address things, and often the problems are never permanently fixed and come up again after some time.

It reminds me of this fortune(6):

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
-- Weisert

Perhaps fans of Cloudflare will downvote instead of engage, but that's almost a given these days. Let's be real - Cloudflare has been given a free pass for far too long. If you disagree and REALLY believe that there're technically valid reasons for punishing people who use non-mainstream browsers, try to actually engage and discuss. I'm truly interested in someone's take about why we're doing something wrong by not using what everyone else is using.
The forum link in the first paragraph is a broken link.

The one about Pale Moon from 2015 suggests the user did something custom and it was seen by CloudFlare (which is acting as a WAF) as something like an SQL Injection[1].

All of the CloudFlare hate on this site is tiresome and borders on Crying Wolf.

Websites aren’t forced to use it. It’s affordable and gives DDoS protection. If reducing false positives for bot/malicious traffic detection were more reliable, this would already be solved.

[1] https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=7096#p45805
I think she drove (or walked, mode of transportation is unspecified) across the border into Canada, was told her visa was inadequate for her planned activity and to return to the US to apply for a proper visa, when she did return to the US, she was detained.

The article is confusing though. This BBC article has a much clearer and more detailed timeline of her travels.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y3yx1jdyo
Luigi taught us things about the world! https://lockwood.dev/ceos/2025/01/16/ceos-should-do-good.htm...
econ on hackernews be like
Might be an algo thing, might be a trigger happy "enhanced" user that doesn't like green accounts.

FWiW the comments look fine to me and I've just [vouch]'d each and every one .. if some one else or two does the same they should come back.
For calibrating your understanding of greenhouse gas emissions producing, packaging, shipping, using, and recovering materials from a 14-inch MacBook Pro in 2023 emits about 243 kg of carbon [1], which is equivalent to using 27 gallons of gasoline. [2]

For some people, this may math out. But it's probably easier to worry less about buying a new laptop every once in a while, and more about driving a bit less or getting a more efficient car.

[1] https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/notebooks/14-...
[2] https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calc...
yt-dlp can take multiple itags and merge them for you as part of the download process. Example: `yt-dlp -f 137+140 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'`
Labels remaster and loose old versions, youtube re-compresses old videos
I wasn't aware of this exact plan either, but to the defense of my history teacher / curriculum:

It was made very clear that millions of civilians died (even when not counting the concentration camps) due to the war of extermination (Vernichtungskrieg)
I assume it has to do with a federal law that grants immigration agents broad searches and inspections and technically the Fourth Amendment does not fully apply as long as they are within 100 miles of the border or in the functional equivalent of a border (like an airport). The ACLU has a summary page about this.[1]

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/documents/constitution-100-mile-border-...
I've done this three times, albeit not very recently. First you need a regular computer, on which you're both going to Google a ton and prepare a lot of software. It's only for fun or maaaybe a niche work use case.

I also had a MacPro5,1 I used extra long, thanks to some of the tooling mentioned here. Great machine. But seeing how it used 200W and I had to buy a new RX580 for it to be usable, idk if that really helped the environment, nor was that the reason I had it.
Why? Congress is majority republican, who have been under selection pressure to be party faithful. If that fails, they are getting death threats to stay in line.

The Republican strategy is to punish bi-partisan efforts.

From a Dem standpoint, its simpler to point out the fact that they have no real power, and let the Republicans take the heat.

What can Congress do?
There's a huge gap between hiring specialists and not caring at all, and this sounds more like the latter:

> They would just either tell me to stay in a corner and sleep or just draw pictures, flowers for them

It doesn't take a specialist to recognize something's off (the fundamental assumption is that, barring a diagnosed learning disability, everyone is able to learn to read and write), and you don't need a full time specialist to do a one-off diagnosis. Whether they had the budget for continued full-time support after that (ex: preparing accessible teaching materials) is a separate question.

TFA is light on details, but it's hard to imagine everyone was doing the best with what they had here.
Designing a site to not be affected by bots is fixing the problem. Blocking things that are bot-like, poorly, with no technical understanding, is a kludge, not a fix.
The Register is a pretty tech advanced journalist outfit from the UK, AFAIK. We also see occasional HN references in tech articles from Ars Technica, etc.
you can shrink it now! You're going to have to change the vhd format to sparse (this is why docker for windows doesn't run on exFAT-formatted SSDs, as I found out a couple weeks ago) and then run compaction on it once. After running compaction once, it should grow and shrink dynamically as you'd expect.
A Supersolid Made Using Photons
Indeed, it makes no sense because some old hardware that might be ok with Linux or even Windows is probably not ok with macOS. This article even tells you to go buy an RX580, and that's not the half of it.

And since you mentioned wasteful web, medium.com is a prime example of that.
Ah, now i get it, it's like tylenol is in most OTC medicines because it's considered so safe. I'll steer clear of supplementing B6. I don't really get much effect from B vitamins anyhow, so i guess i get enough in my diet and occasional multivitamin.

Thanks for the heads' up, this is completely different than the 250mg mentioned elsewhere (iirc) - i'll let people know.

aside: L-theanine made me jittery, boy. Not a fan.
How about a wireguard tunnel from an ingress box? You still pay for one VPS, but can run everything locally and just load balance at the ingress. I just manually add configs to nginx, but there are automated tools too.
user-agent had and will never be useful for the client, and therefore, cannot ever be useful for the server in trying to identify someone.

If it is advantagious to lie about the client, the client will lie, and the server will know this and not trust the client's headers.

Blocking or restricting based on other metrics should be the way to go - for example, shape traffic based on the speed and frequency, such that bots gets shaped but users' dont (because they're slower etc). It aligns properly with the desire to stop bots.
If anyone finds a good guide, this would be a great place to share it.
It's funny that you mention it, because quite a few digital storefronts accept crypto. Particularly, the ones that have been censured by the financial oligarchies (Visa, Mastercard et al)
“McDonald’s tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants—giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-site. The setup, known as edge computing, can be a faster, cheaper option than sending data to the cloud“

What fresh hell is this?
I suspect it means: With mass immigration occurring in Ireland at the rate it is, soon the proportion of ethnic Irish in Ireland's population may match the proportion of ethnic Irish in the US's population.

Hyperbole is a common facet of humour (to make a point) in the British Isles.
Ouch. Yes. I agree.
We went to the Dunbrody Famine ship exhibit in New Ross, Ireland a few years back. It was a neat exhibit, first they seat you in a dark small room and show a movie detailing the situation, then the wall opens up and the ship is nicely framed in the view, sitting outside in the River Barrow.

They then take you out to tour the ship.
> Blocking things that are bot-like, poorly, with no technical understanding, is a kludge, not a fix.

a kludge might be better than none. And it's an easy kludge (for the site owner - a checkbox in cloudflare).

The fault lies with cloudflare implementing a lazy bot detector.
> with no technical understanding

WTF?

Building a WAF that has zero false positives and zero false negatives is impossible. All we can ask is that the companies that build WAFs be responsive, but they also need accurate bug reports with sufficient information to identify the variable.
This has been going on for so long, other parties feel justified in their similar decisions. E.g. try this accessible-for-some-browsers search result page behind the fastly "Client Challenge": https://pypi.org/search/?q=pip
I built https://skeet.build where anyone can try out mcp for cursor and dev tools without a lot of setup.

We did this because of a painpoint I experienced as an engineer having to deal with Jira and Linear - updating slack and all that friction. I noticed I copy and paste a lot to cursor and so spent time building this app.

Mostly for workflows that I like:

• start a PR with a summary of what I just did - slack or comment to linear/Jira with a summary of what I pushed
• connect to Postgres and build CRUD api from the table schema
• pull this issue from sentry and fix it
• pull this linear issue and do a first pass
• pull in this Notion doc with a PRD then create an API reference for it based on this codebase, then create a new Notion page with the reference

Everyone seems to go for the hype but ease of use, practical pragmatic developer workflows, and high quality polished mcp servers are what we’re focused on

Lmk what you think!
Oh stfu, I have tried everything to gain exposure, if I suck this bad, just tell me to eat a bullet and stop my wasting my time.
Well, it could be the TL is incompetent. The inability to communicate is a possible sign.

However, there could be more to the situation. For example, you may be missing what they are saying! That’s on both of you.

Also, some details are missing. Like is this 50 weeks in and due in two? Or two weeks in and due in two?

And sometimes you need to iterate to get proper understanding of the problem space.

At lastly… they could have given you lots of rope to do it the right way, and the TL was hoping you would have seen the error of your ways by now and finally feels like intervening.
Unfortunately I think it's just statistics killing browser diversity, not conspiracy or collusion.

The math doesn't care about our freedom of choice. Tech savvy users making alternative choices on their web experience are an extreme minority in the sum total of HTTP requests. But the outcome is the same: a narrowing web where only mainstream options function reliably.

The ironic part, as everyone here understands, is that those who actually understand technology enough to use alternative browsers or privacy tools are the ones getting locked out. We're punishing ourselves for our technical literacy by implementing these strategies at these companies. And it really does help the average person who does not think about their browser choices.
And blocking users can make the user experience worse.
Most anti-bots will send other browser characteristics as well and can detect if one is lying about which browser, and even which version they're using based on which APIs and properties are/aren't available.

see: https://blog.castle.io/anti-detect-browser-analysis-how-to-d...
thank you!! I will keep your advice in mind if I ever try WSL again
Fastest way to spend your money is to connect your system to agentic AI
I have been vibing with Claude Code for the past 48 hours. It is fascinating at how fast I am close to releasing an MVP with over 50 files and 10k lines of high quality code after dozens of improvements. However, it also cost me $120. In this case it is worth it, but the cost component of AI is scary.
Even worse, people seem to forget that “science” is not math. You need to test hypotheses with physical (including biological) experiments. The vast majority of the time spent doing “science” is running these experiments.

An LLM like AI won’t help with that. It would still be a huge help in finding and correlating data and information though.
This isn't argumentative. Do you have anything i can look at to see why the EPA et al would not want a light, cheap, fuel efficient truck?

is it capture by Ford and GM? Are there even trucks as small as the Nissans that had the 2400 motors (or 2600)? I live near enough texas that every truck is way too big, so i don't see many new, small trucks. A lot of people have the old, nearly all metal, small trucks.
Yeah that’s fair, my consoles are mostly Nintendo or older systems
Kinda cool but needs arm assist, most menial tasks fail due to tiring upper body strength.

For example, unloading trucks, carrying plaster boards etc. I would kill to have one of these (for arms) the last time I unloaded 50 acoustic plasterboards @ 60kg each in the last office reno.

The truck driver gave me a hand and yeah he was a bit tired but me, I was dead. My bones hurt.
Looks like it's broken link because Cloudflare deleted the forum post.

Google's still got it in their search results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.clou...
Thanks carbonhell, yep you really are bounded by the customization. But if you really need one you can see a preview on the website and use code EARlY for the card to be free
That is not always possible, may not be affordable, or may degrade the overall user experience.
I built https://skeet.build where anyone can try out mcp for cursor and dev tools without a lot of setup.

I build APIs for my day job and mcp isn’t the same as just porting over APIs.

I did this because of a painpoint I experienced as an engineer having to deal with Jira and Linear - updating slack and all that friction. I noticed I copy and paste a lot to cursor and so spent time building this app.

Mostly for workflows that I like:

• start a PR with a summary of what I just did - slack or comment to linear/Jira with a summary of what I pushed
• connect to Postgres and build CRUD api from the table schema
• pull this issue from sentry and fix it
• pull this linear issue and do a first pass
• pull in this Notion doc with a PRD then create an API reference for it based on this codebase, then create a new Notion page with the reference

Everyone seems to go for the hype but ease of use, practical pragmatic developer workflows, and high quality polished mcp servers are what we’re focused on

Lmk what you think!