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Props to @sleepingNomad here, who has done 16 releases in the last 7 hours, incorporating feedback from HN on the fly! * Don't like menubar apps? you you can run it as a normal app…

Sincere advice: Consider engaging with a community before trying to use it to promote your work. You account is not even 3 months old. In that time you made 6 submissions, all of t…

I mean it's cool your created a new CMS and all, but beyond the look of the admin interface and publishing flow, I don't see how this is a "Spirtual Successor" to WordPress at all.…

For plugins, no. 1- EmDash plugins are written in TypeScript, not PHP 2- EmDash plugins have a specific permissions model, where they need to explicitly request access to certain t…

There's a nice graph in this Six Colors article: https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/apple-introduces-colorful... Single Core performance: the A18 Pro is faster than an M3! Multi Co…

For years Apple has been selling an M1 Apple MacBook Air for $649 via Walmart. It was still using the old wedge case design and is literally unchanged from fall of 2020 when it cam…

Minor suggestion. I found this because the UI looked cool and I wanted to see a more zoomed in view of it. But right now the "Take control of your network today" is the only place …

Congratulations on shipping! Looks awesome. Minor bug: I tried opening the WebP screen shots in another tab so I could zoom and see them more clearly, and it does not work. Chrome …

There are real problems with the Torrent files for collections. They are automatically created when a collection is first created and uploaded, and so they only include the files o…

I built and run a search engine and a "Wayback Machine" for Gemini: gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev There are ~4K hosts and ~1M documents/images/files which make for nice playground with…

In the early to mid 2000s I would believe this. But for a major e-commerce provider in 2012? That seems vanishing improbable. PCI DSS is the data security standard required by cred…

> Their response was better than 98% of other companies when it comes to reporting vulnerabilities. Very welcoming and most of all they showed interest and addressed the issues Thi…

During my last semester at Georgia Tech, I had one remaining 3000-level English credit I needed to graduate. During the last week to register, I quickly found an open class titled …

Oh snap! The same group behind last year’s Polyfill.io supply chain attack are back! Krebs doesn’t mention it but The Register makes the connection; https://www.theregister.com/202…

!!! Message: DISPMORNING. NEED LEO TO MEET THE AC. A PAX WAS INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING ANOTHER PAX IN THE ROW INFRONT OF THEM. THE FAS HAVE THE SEAT NUMBER ANDMANIFEST. FYI AND THX …

Beyond just IPs, there is a giant class of "DNS record pointing to X shared cloud resource that organization no longer controls" issues. The bigger the company, the more widespread…

I'm glad you are having success, but B2C is wildly different than B2B. I can't think of any B2C company that could do calls with customers. The economics don't make sense. Instead …

So port knocking, but with also returning junk during the knocking process?

> OpenAI is the fastest growing startup by revenue, ever. No it's not. Facebook hit $2B in Revenue in late 2010 - early 2011, ~5 years after its founding. https://dazeinfo.com/2018…

It started that way but wasn’t been for a while. In fact the last version was a rewrite using native macOS controls and optimized for Apple Silicon. Sad to see it go but heard grea…

Licensing. Common Crawl could change the license of how the data it produces is used. Common Crawl already talks about allowed use of the data in their FAQ, and in their terms of u…

Common Crawl is shown in their screen shot of "Providers" along side OpenAI and Antropic. The challenge is that Common Crawl is used for a lot of things that are not AI training. F…