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The obvious next step is to crawl the whole database of vulnerable Kia cars and create a "ride share" app that shows you the nearest Kia and unlocks it for you.

I wonder if you could construct a hash collision for high pagerank sites in the google (or Bing) index. You would need to know what hash algorithm google uses to store URLs. This i…

"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when…

But hear me out... What if we could make every car $5-10k more expensive instead? I once thought that using AI to make all cars self driving might be the key to making pedestrians …

The point is that the vast majority of scrapers do not bother to run javascript.

Search traffic has always been mostly automated spam bots. Even back in the Open Directory Days when we powered part of search.netscape.com I estimated 80+% of all search traffic w…

Cuil was way ahead of its time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255122 http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/ Cuil Theory

My thought exactly. Now they just need a project acronym that spells out MOTHRA. MOsquito Tracking and Heat RAy?

I was introduced to this and other calendar quirks by Professor Edward Reingold when taking introduction to CS at UIUC. One of our "machine problems" (AKA programming assignments) …

This is very disappointing. I would love to hear from user crhulls https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=crhulls the CEO Life360 (or so claimed, I can't verify). Too bad Hacker News…

I've been using emacs as my primary editor since 1989. It has for that entire time been a PITA to configure. My first customization was to map backspace to ^H and map the insert ke…

https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/toys-games/six-mill... A quick look on ebay shows they're typically selling for less than $100.

This new version of the Fisher-Price Record Player is heartbreaking. I learned so much from trying to understand how it worked. Concepts like stored energy: experimenting with tryi…

Of course I had to test this by drawing an Interrobang: ‽ It got it right. My first drawing didn't have interrobang at the top of the suggestion list, because I didn't have the top…

Yes, paraphrasing. I forget the exact details, but the javascript intentionally blocked for 5 seconds before proceeding to do anything useful.

I filed a bug, but I suspect it was about as effective as shouting into a hole in the ground. The bug was still there when I left IBM.

I worked at IBM a few years ago. When I started we were had to use Notes for email, not long after we got migrated to Verse (IBM's webmail system). Verse was better than Notes (dam…

Why doesn't an Argon ONE M.2 Case not fit your requirements? https://www.argon40.com/argon-one-m-2-case-for-raspberry-pi-... Or is it about having it all pre-built and pre-installe…

This has been on my TODO list for a while. But first I need to set up another Pi to be the PXE server... :)

I just advertise both Pi-Holes via DHCP and when I configure manual DNS settings. The primary DNS gets the vast majority of the DNS traffic, about 150 requests/minute and the secon…

To be fair, I have 7 Pis running on my network. Home Assistant, 2x Pi-Holes (for redundancy), 1 magic mirror, my Weasleyclock, 1x w/ a hi-fi berry acting as a Spotify streaming dev…

"Outside of commercial use, the $100 dollar price tag is a little high for the 'impulse buy then stick it in a drawer' use case most of us using Pis are familiar with." I swear, so…

I had a friend who implemented what he referred to as Zeno's Progress Bar. After every unit of time passed, the progress bar would progress half the distance to completion. So 0 ->…

Hacker News thread on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22925091

During my tenure at Sun the burrito tool faxed your order to Burrito Real (good, but not the institutions that La Costena and La Bamba were). Maybe this was in the wake of La Coste…