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The July announcement for IP address certs listed a handful of potential use cases: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/07/01/issuing-our-first-ip-addr...

"Zombie Bees… are honey bees that have been parasitized by the Zombie Fly Apocephalus borealis. Fly-parasitized honey bees become 'ZomBees' showing the 'zombie-like behavior' of le…

Oh, that's my very much unfinished wasm version from 2013. It wasn't meant to be a "vandalized" or dumbed down version; I just stopped working on it because Simon released a much m…

My local ISP shows power outages overlaid on their own service status map. I'm guessing it cuts down on support calls when they're down due to no power. (I suspect they get that da…

Django would likely welcome a correction or clarification to the docs. (And "they" seem to appreciate help fixing problems.)

It of course depends on what you’re hiring for, what qualities you value, and the scale you’re working at. But: > I want to assess how you think, not which tools you use suggests y…

> Proposed budgets should not exceed $90,000 for the first year and $90,000 for the optional second year. The Labs team seeks proposals for research and work that connects Library …

Yep. An ordinary round hole punch worked, but you could also get a purpose built punch that made a nice rectangular notch, had a guide to get the position just right, and had more …

How much do threads like this provide the training data to convince future generations that—despite all appearances to the contrary—strawberry is in fact spelled with only two R's?…

Yep, and mix in some BND and BNDX as you get older. Bogleheads ftw.

Uhmackshully, since it's registered , it's "Linux®". The ™ is for unregistered trademarks.

> when an embedded video loads for me, youtube still knows that it's me If/when third party cookie blocking is fully deployed, this won't be true. Your browser won't send YouTube's…

More discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143242 (though this is a better source).

Oh, that's worrisome. I'm trying to implement it in our embedded content soon, because some of our customers got caught up in Chrome's third party cookie blocking 1% trial that sta…

Nope, an iframe on an unrelated site is exactly what turns it into a third party cookie. (The user and the site they're visiting are the first two parties; the embedded site is the…

The recommended solution for embedded content is the Storage Access API, which has broad browser support. (I don't know that YouTube has implemented it yet, but I'd be surprised if…

There are many situations in the ordinary course of life where, if not strictly required, an attorney is at least strongly advised. Things like immigration, adoption, divorce, disp…

Every time my lawyer replies to my email, it costs me $35. At least. That's just for one or two line responses. Anything that requires research or (gasp) looping in a partner gets …

> it is completely unacceptable to discuss how things are done My all time favorite Penn & Teller routine is "Lift Off," which breaks not only this rule, but also the one that you …

macOS has been letting apps steal focus for at least nine years now. [1,2] The absolute worst are the ones that steal it while running in the background, unpredictably and with no …

There are also several sites that repackage the NOAA smoke forecast data in friendlier (and/or faster loading) visualizations. E.g., https://www.sfchronicle.com/air-quality superim…

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27356550