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The Spy Who Came in from the WiFi: Beware of Radio Network Surveillance

kit.edu
3 points·by b2ccb2·9 mesi fa·2 comments

Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe

mpg.de
260 points·by b2ccb2·9 mesi fa·141 comments

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b2ccb2
·mese scorso·discuss
Just a quick shoutout to the Splinter Cell Enhanced patch[1], to restore, among other things, the shadows from the original console version.

And, as a bonus, the original Splinter Cell 75% off on Steam[2] and 50% off on GOG[3] (same price on both platforms).

[1] https://github.com/Joshhhuaaa/EnhancedSC

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/13560/Tom_Clancys_Splinte...

[3] https://www.gog.com/en/game/splinter_cell
b2ccb2
·3 mesi fa·discuss
> Would you rather have them take an additional 30 minutes looking up their technical manual?

Yes
b2ccb2
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I have quite a different take on that. As much as most people view documentation as a chore, there is value in it.

See it as code review, reflection, getting a birds eye view.

When I document my code, I often stop in between, and think: That implementation detail doesn't make sense/is over convoluted/can be simplified/seems to be lacking sanity check etc…

There is also the art of subtly injecting humor in it, with, e.g. code examples.
b2ccb2
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Absolutely agree, wait until the judge finds out about Bukowski's "The Fiend".
b2ccb2
·5 mesi fa·discuss
A good time to advertise for Sudo Mastery by Michael W. Lucas, highly recommend it if you want to dig in a bit deeper.
b2ccb2
·6 mesi fa·discuss
That is invalid syntax. Only phrasing content is allowed the p element (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Guides/Con...)
b2ccb2
·6 mesi fa·discuss
It would be trivial to allow all possible languages with toLocaleString[0]:

  d = new Date();
  console.log(d.toLocaleString(window.navigator.language, {
    weekday: 'short'
  }));
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
b2ccb2
·7 mesi fa·discuss
You got it. This is AI Slop at it's worst. And even the replies from the author reeks of AI. I read some of the source code, and it is slop, which I would never trust without scrutiny. Carefully read just the first words of benmxrt:

You're right that the current beta…

That is a great point

Absolutely agree with both of you

That is an intriguing feature request

That’s a very fair point

You hit the nail on the head

Great question

That is a valid point

Sharp eye
b2ccb2
·7 mesi fa·discuss
The GitHub link in the footer links to… GitHub
b2ccb2
·7 mesi fa·discuss
The confusion likely stems from the relatively new introduction of the capitalized ẞ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fes_%C3%9F

Maß capitalized (used to be) MASS.

Funnily enough, Mass means one liter beer (think Oktoberfest).
b2ccb2
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I really like https://news.ycombinator.com/best?h=24 with the GET parameter for hours.
b2ccb2
·8 mesi fa·discuss
I'd use <table>. It literally is a table. And for mobile just do a media query to turn it into a flexbox.
b2ccb2
·8 mesi fa·discuss


  The RAID 5 and RAID 6 modes of Btrfs are fatally flawed, and should not be used for "anything but testing with throw-away data."
From the ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Multi-device_file_sys...
b2ccb2
·8 mesi fa·discuss
filter: invert(1);

Or, my dark mode for HN:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { html { background-color: #000; } body, td[bgcolor="#ff6600"] { filter: invert(1); } }
b2ccb2
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276
b2ccb2
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Here you go, from the same page you posted, gun ownership correlated to gun homicides in all developed countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
b2ccb2
·8 mesi fa·discuss


  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex#Legal_issues_in_Ukraine
  https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/the-sad-fate-of-yandex-from-independent-tech-startup-to-kremlin-propaganda-tool
b2ccb2
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Relevant paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z (Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire)
b2ccb2
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Relevant paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z (Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire)
b2ccb2
·8 mesi fa·discuss
TIL that the term Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is based upon this nugget:

> The name "Baader–Meinhof phenomenon" was coined in 1994 by Terry Mullen in a letter to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.[1] The letter describes how, after mentioning the name of the German militant group Baader–Meinhof once, he kept noticing it.

Thanks!