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Could be just some entity that buys websites with good expired domain names to late resell? But yes I don't understand why they are not empty.

Codex has recently added a [terminal bell]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character ) on some recent update btw. I hear a little "beemp" sound on Ubuntu 25.10. Not as ideal as…

They have a Sorted by Trending feature BTW on each question, it's just not the default sort method.

Nowadays at least, wonder if they could just pick a few of the most popular unblocked HTTPS websites with a private messaging system a la Twitter DM. Email possibly too. A GitHub p…

Ah, I didn't implement RSS unfortunately. What you can do now is if you follow a user when they announce an article (there's an announce button), you get an email with a link. I su…

It is hard to balance both aspects. I tried to summarize more interesting things on initial sections and from "Methodology" downwards it is definitely not for casual reading. Also …

Definitely. An OPSEC is only secure relative to the appropriate thread model. If those disconnect, it spells disaster.

Author of the research article here. https://www.404media.co/the-cia-secretly-ran-a-star-wars-fan... published today which kicked off this thread has a good summary, but let me kno…

The problem was called "Antihydra" by discoverers. This could mean that we might never be able to determine BB(6), and that it might be undecidable.

Thank for the submission! This was also previously posted at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279375 from before my recent update that added ~75 new websites with a new tech…

I started this research after YouTube suggested me that video. I knew about the sites, but I had missed the Reuters articles that gave the 7 starting points.

I would love to know... even finding the source of those stock photos would be awesome. My initial suspicion is that the image split is just an ancient webdev thing (which they use…

The ultimate compliment.

Yeah. They just didn't have the patience to setup separate ranges for each of their ~900 sites. It's quite sad.

Thanks for the awesome service! I wish I had known this, I went to quite a few cybercafes to get some extra IPs XD I really wish the reverse IPs would hit even when it's not the la…

Of course :-)

Exactly. The best bet is to use a service that is used by a huge number of users and try to hide your traffic in it. I wonder why they didn't do gmail -> gmail for example. Maybe t…

Hello HN.

Noble try :-)

Two related posts by me: - https://stackoverflow.com/a/66105692 - https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/149405

I wonder how Alexa found those domains in the first place. Were there links to them, or did it use some kind of DNS dump?

I have found that one of the communication mechanisms used does use HTTPS on subdomains, typically secure.*, as explained at: https://cirosantilli.com/cia-2010-covert-communication…

I have researched this now. According to https://tools.whoisxmlapi.com/whois-history-search the domains were registered June 11, 2023, shortly after my article came out. They are t…