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The socket.dev deconstruction of the worm ( https://socket.dev/blog/shai-hulud-strikes-again-v2 ) suggests that the destructive actions on GitHub were not part of the malware itsel…

"The simultaneous activity from US and India confirmed we were dealing with a single attacker using multiple VPNs or servers, not separate actors." Did it really? It's not clear to…

I would like to know why this comment seems to have been down voted. It's true AFAIK.

"... resent SO and Reddit trying to gatekeep": Am curious why you felt they were gatekeeping your content. They are free websites, and anybody who wants/needs to read your content,…

Let's say you start wearing a mushroom as an extra sensory input, and you started doing a dab every time you sensed something from the mushroom Would you describe that situation as…

Hi, could you mention a use-case or two where these things made a real difference?

Not certain I agree about the payment part. Why not leave it up to the DM receiver to decide whether / not they want to charge for their time, and to respond accordingly?

Yes, and a few rare users do that. However, I don't know that users that don't do it are 100% against being contacted by other HN users. It's possible they're just hiding their ema…

HN prevents replying to posts / comments that are "too old". This means if I have a question for a user based on a comment they wrote 2 months ago, there's no way for me to get the…

Does the LDL cholesterol do anything useful when it's on the walls of arteries?

Sarcasm?

I'd say your math is wrong. Only a small % of the 11,000 people are going to agree they were scammed.

I don't disagree with your take, but I'd say that's not the only valid take. One could argue this is an extension for a breaking-news browsing platform.

Hah, didn't even know Twitter had a dark mode. I've updated the extension to use a dark-mode-friendly highlight color when appropriate. The update should pass the web store review …

You're right. I had to reload the extension, then reload the page to get my content script changes injected into it.

How interesting. I experience this problem on both Chrome and Firefox (v121.0.1 on Ubuntu 22.04). I am mildly curious about why only a subset of Firefox users are experiencing this…

Not sure. I just found myself noticing the scroll-position loss repeatedly over a few weeks of browsing Twitter, and figured I didn't have to wait for an official fix.

Twitter loses your scroll position when you go from a Tweet thread to a reply thread, then come back. This is what the extension fixes. Twitter does keep your scroll position when …

Does middle-clicking the tweet not open it in a new tab?

Not in India

Hi HN, I've been pretty addicted to Twitter lately, and I tend to go pretty deep when browsing threads (replies, replies-to-replies, replies-to-replies-to-replies, ...) Annoyingly,…

I thought it looked great. In fact, I was inspired enough to spend several minutes trying to figure out how the author had done it.

Your comment made me curious: what kinds of insights have you seen BE folks miss due to not working closely with PMs and designers?