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I feel the same. So so so many "regular expression denial-of-service" issues at my last job that just didn't seem serious or often reachable.

I was replying to a comment quoting an official rule saying "no piece can be moved if that exposes or leaves its own king in check." I was pointing out that that specific rule (rea…

Did you mean putting your opponent in check? In chess, you are not allowed to put yourself in check.

That's a consequence of not being allowed to put yourself in check (by any means).

Will we?

Sometimes HN admins revive quality posts that didn't get much traction when they were first posted. When this happens, the timestamps are updated to make the post look new. I can't…

The comment you're replying to already mentions this.

Works best when your meetings are 40 minutes long

More info on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection > The Texas Interconnection is maintained as a separate grid for political, rather than technical reason…

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461563

steganography — stenography is courtroom transcription

The AI narration was off-putting, but the video footage was cool.

The dependency has just come out of the oven, so it's too hot and must cool down ;)

I would say that's the job of a CTO

The MacBook Pro has had a 120 Hz screen for nearly half a decade. And of course, external displays can support whatever resolution/refresh rate, regardless of the OS driving them.

Actually this Reddit post predates that "original source" by several hours: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ntc1gt/the_fcc_has_...

Not connector related, but I can't tell you how many people use time zones like PST year-round. The ST stands for "standard time," meaning not Daylight Saving Time. Right now, PDT …

Does narcissist rhyme with arsonist? ("Narsonist")

I believe that's the point being made by the comment you're replying to

I think a negative video is a requirement that you upload one before you may continue

> There are no bans on books discussing such matters. contradicts > Public schools may ban books

I think your explanation of async, while true, doesn't get at what's special about async. The explanation seems true of (non-parallel) concurrency as well (for example, thread sche…

I used this feature in the New York subway last week. I didn't know it was new. It's a cool idea, but it didn't work for me. The app said that the train was several stops behind it…

In Ruby, the `if [condition]` modifier at the end of a line is used for more cases than just assignment. For example, `return if s.blank?` and `raise "invalid" if input.length > 10…

Yeah, it would be confusing. In Ruby, this would leave spam unmodified.