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Let me introduce you to California's way of doing things: https://guncad.substack.com/p/special-issue-state-of-califor... They're suing Florida residents with no ties to California…

In the U.S., requiring a login (or any information other than your email address) to opt out is against the law. Additionally, you cannot require any steps other than "sending a re…

In this case, "null MX record" means MX exists, but does not specify a valid server: $ host -t mx example.com example.com mail is handled by 0 . Senders should not fall back on the…

I use uBlock Origin for this, something like: news.ycombinator.com##:matches-path(/^/item\?id=/) tr a.hnuser:has-text(/^dpifke$/):upward(tr) This mostly works, but only kills the u…

The very first subheading is entitled "What to Submit." I quoted it in my initial reply as rationale for why the people flagging this submission as off-topic were justified.

This seems similar to the "Is Github Down?" submission problem, where the submitter simply links to github.com. That's a poor submission, because by the time most people click on i…

Lots of hackers find porn very interesting. In fact, my first "real job" as a hacker was for a company with ties to the 1-900 industry that had decided to expand out onto the inter…

Strong disagree. Gay porn is censored in a lot of Muslim countries, that doesn't make it on-topic for HN.

It's off-topic, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This submission is literally a TV news broadcast. The…

As someone who has moderated online communities in the past, I recognize the value in having a page like this, to which you can point people if they want to enumerate such trifles …

At an untowered field, saying the airport name at the beginning and end of each transmission is standard phraseology.

If it causes more than $5k in damage. Otherwise, it's a misdemeanor. But you probably don't want to be investigated for either.

https://unpoly.com touts "progressive enhancement." Third link on the page ("read the long story") points to https://triskweline.de/unpoly-rugb/ , which renders as a blank page wit…

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. (quoting https://…

Shouldn't you be out protesting your local chess club instead of posting on HN right now?

We do use gyroscopic power storage, see e.g. https://h-cpc.cat.com/cmms/v2?f=subfamily&it=group&cid=402&l... https://www.activepower.com/ ...and probably others. (A couple of decad…

Related: https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/subtle#WithDataIndependentTiming (added in 1.25) And an in-progress proposal to make these various "bubble" functions have consistent semantics: …

I recently logged onto LinkedIn for the first time in a while, and found an old job posting from when I was hiring at a startup ~2 decades ago. It's amazing how much it sounds like…

My first car (hand-me-down from my Dad) was a 1980s Datsun, that I managed to total within a few weeks of getting my license, much to the consternation of my younger brother and si…

If you're in the U.S., you might check if your local fire department has a CERT[0] training course. (I did it many years ago in San Francisco; they call it NERT for some reason.) I…

Spamhaus has been sued—multiple times, I believe—for publishing DNS-based lists used to block email from known spammers. For instance: https://reason.com/volokh/2020/07/27/injuncti…