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> It's clear that politicians don't get this from the way they talk about a "mere 1%" wealth tax. None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even thoug…

If a senior backend developer wanted to become frontend or devops or even sales, is that harder or easier in the age of AI?

I built this tool a while back when I accidentally deleted thousands of my PDFs. I found the existing ext4magick and similar solutions to be cumbersome and complicated to use, and …

I made this tool that allows server admins to decrypt passwords during bootup with the help of Matrix and HTTP.

No, because the Revolut card used on the offending service has already been frozen or cancelled by me at that stage.

I set up a new throwaway virtual card on Revolut every time I sign up for a free trial or rolling subscription. After that card is used to verify payment method or to pay an initia…

Most of them don’t check the IP, it would seem. Google acquires new IPs all the time, plus there are a lot of other search systems that news publishers don’t want to accidentally m…

There are some pretty robust browser addons for bypassing article paywalls, notably https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-fire... This particular addon is blocked…

Curiously, this isn't the first time archive.today was implicated in a DDoS. A HN post from three years back shows some pasted snippets of similar XmlHttpRequest code running on ar…

Great work! This is seriously addictive. I did some QA for you (after playing the game for more hours than I'd like to admit): - Bristol Airport (bus station) is somehow located in…