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What Ukrainian software and hardware engineers are achieving, with very significant European support, is nothing short of inspirational. Within four years, under very tough circums…

I have a database on my local machine with 200 million records in one table and 2 other related tables. Even the most complex queries take about 1 minute to vibe code and paste int…

Well documented in Acute Radiation Syndrome, and features in the excellent show Chernobyl.

This kind of prompt injection should also work for customer feedback forms for companies I really don't like, right?

When you think that the Norman successors still own the vast majority of England to this day, cramming the Anglo-Saxons into rabbit hutches on high density estates, very.

Your confirmation of the correlation is the first real result.

My guess is that the current administration has deleted all internal data from the CIA World Factbook to prevent any attempt to revive it in future. Would be amazing if the next US…

In the EU countries with local instant bank payments schemes they are much more popular with consumers than credit cards when paying attrusted merchants, who in turn pay around a q…

Key part of what you wrote: "as to the identity and location of aliens" - so whatever claim they have to access health information applies to aliens. The big question is: are they …

You don't HAVE to. In a no fault case you can just take the insurance payout and live with the damage.

Peak HN - captures it perfectly.

There were, but it turns out that the moral fortitude required to defend them was just a figment of the national imagination.

I would add the nuance that the possibility of controlled migration from one versioned API to another should be right from day one, not necessarily the first API version.

I believe that means you are more or less setting yourself up as a payment facilitator, meaning you and your other merchants will be kicked off Stripe at any time if too many of yo…

No Preventative Measures (NPM)

The computer science equivalent of choosing between the red, green and blue wires when disarming a nuke with 15 seconds left on the clock

This should be treated with absolute top priority by the police, with the same level of forensic attention as a terrorist attack. If everybody associated with the crime, including …

docx files of merchant onboarding questionnaires Why would merchants fill out docx files? They would submit an online form with their business, director and UBO details, that data …

It's not just business data though - usually it will include ultimate beneficial owner and directors' passports, tax ID, etc. So there is a risk of identity theft there of potentia…

"The system was used for internal operational documents and merchant onboarding materials at that time" To me it seems most likely that this is data collected during the KYC proces…

Same for the audience!

In some ways Amazon's entshittification is others' gain. For example, Amazon used to be a place you could easily buy and download music files legally. But they entshittified their …

So how much money for 5 years of effort?

"We the software engineering team were paid well for it"