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

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

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b2ccb2
·mês passado·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
·há 3 meses·discuss
> Would you rather have them take an additional 30 minutes looking up their technical manual?

Yes
b2ccb2
·há 5 meses·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
·há 5 meses·discuss
Absolutely agree, wait until the judge finds out about Bukowski's "The Fiend".
b2ccb2
·há 5 meses·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
·há 6 meses·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
·há 6 meses·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
·há 7 meses·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
·há 7 meses·discuss
The GitHub link in the footer links to… GitHub
b2ccb2
·há 7 meses·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
·há 7 meses·discuss
I really like https://news.ycombinator.com/best?h=24 with the GET parameter for hours.
b2ccb2
·há 8 meses·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
·há 8 meses·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
·há 8 meses·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
·há 8 meses·discuss
Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276
b2ccb2
·há 8 meses·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
·há 8 meses·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
·há 8 meses·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
·há 8 meses·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
·há 8 meses·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!