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    Comment #42345672

    The 4 indicates UUIDv4. If you were looking for the biggest hexadecimal UUID, find one with f instead of 9.

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    Comment #38810629

    The article does not provide any direct evidence that trades were made with knowledge of the attacks. Also see a refutal at https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67628380

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    Comment #38134183

    https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/ has some repositories archived.

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    Comment #36475111

    The XDG spec appears to be specifying user-wide/system-wide configuration files, but the post is about organizing files specific to an individual project or repository. (edit: rela…

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    Comment #33363874

    A comic from xkcd visualizes this fact: https://xkcd.com/1338/

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    Comment #33281261

    The vulnerability impacts 'the "official" SHA-3 implementation'. How widely used is it for SHA-3 hashing compared to something like OpenSSL?

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    Comment #33266910

    > The overall traffic quickly snowballed from a couple of terabytes per day to 10-20 times that amount. A 1000Mbps server could only serve 10.8TB, and that's not even accounting fo…

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    Comment #32772337

    This is fake news. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Burial_place_of_Genghis_K... There appear to be many websites copying this article and then later vanishing or redirecting…

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    Comment #32719474

    The original submission link was https://twitter.com/AggressiveCurl/status/156616119824850944... , it was changed since this comment was posted

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    Comment #31870948

    This doesn't have much of an 'evidence trail' but I thought last year's court filing about the Maryland nuclear engineer was interesting: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-nu…

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    Comment #30291100

    The only recent comment I could find about raytracing on calculators on /g/ mentions a TI-86, and was posted after this repo was created, but before it was posted on HN (I used a 4…

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    Comment #30278590

    That commit seems to include all the code written before 2005. The commit message notes that it doesn't bother including the full history.

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    Comment #29586785

    TLSNotary tries to solve this problem: https://tlsnotary.org/ It was posted here a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29090604

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    Comment #29585166

    Where does ArchiveTeam find all the reddit posts and comments to archive? Do they have a script automatically going through the "New" section or are they finding posts through Goog…

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    Comment #29524874

    For me, there were four black-colored stories on the front page, and the fifth black-colored story was #56 on the second page.

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    Comment #29033107

    Clicking on the live stream could increase its engagement and make YouTube recommend it more.

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    Comment #28343160

    The PDF linked to in the post: https://web.archive.org/web/20181123120243/www.insidemathema... (the original link is dead) Also, I wonder if posting a photo of the work with pencil…

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    Comment #28261017

    There is: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... It seems that the submitter hasn't applied it

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    Comment #26652198

    A few use-cases I can think of: GeoIP spoofing (watching streaming shows not available in your country), bypassing IP bans from places, preventing DMCA letters from torrenting, and…

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    Comment #26376925

    There's the Multipath TCP protocol for use cases like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP For example, Apple already uses it when you ask Siri a question on an iOS de…

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    Comment #25974628

    A more accurate analogy based on the relationship between gQUIC and IETF QUIC would be that an early non-released version of the iPhone is vulnerable to an attack.

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    Comment #25471327

    Is any monetization planned?

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    Comment #25448427

    Well, the same thing might happen with Rocky Linux as well :)