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There's been a moratorium on new billboards in SF for a long time already. No new ones are getting built. Given the reliable revenue they provide, will be a long time before they n…

hah thanks for the deep dive on this. I wanted to investigate myself but figured someone on HN would be faster at it. Makes sense it's not helpful, alas.

Can someone help me understand the underlying motivation behind this? It makes sense that some crawlers, in the style of Google, would want to index the entire internet. But what i…

Theres always going to be some negative externality effecting people that live near anything getting built. Even if the operational data center isn't loud enough to be heard beyond…

likely because your browser is enforcing that you always go to the HTTPS URL. Your link above works fine for me.

it's not serving HTTPS at all, it's HTTP only. Port 80 is open, port 443 isn't.

Cosmically I feel like the HTTPS certificate on Cloudflare.pay should provide sufficient info to confirm it's the same entity behind Cloudflare.com

It handles these circumstances. Definitely seen it cross to the other side with oncoming traffic to get around a truck blocking a lane. For the signal light, never experienced that…

The poster: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i... Note the pigs are numbered 1, 2, 1. And the gondola with a floating cable and another that terminates at…

It's interesting how much of the value here is providing the english Skill definitions that tell the LLM what to do: https://github.com/openai/codex-security/tree/main/sdk/types...…

You're ignoring the asymmetry with security. The attacker just needs one exploit chain, whereas the defender needs to block every avenue. Open access to models with no guardrails g…

the ' that happened ' makes it too long for the HN submission title length limit. Maybe simonw can suggest an alternative title that fits within the limit, that doesn't misrepresen…

Agreed. Big love for exe.dev. For quick low stakes projects, using their Shelly assistant is the simplest way to give an LLM a fully persistent VM with web services I've found.

Digression: You can link directly to a page in a pdf with a url like this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.13335#page=27

The way source maps are used by dark net sites, and the reason it exists, are probably unrelated! I think it was just an early form of using image tiling for big efficiency gains. …

great point! Though what about the default windows APIs for 'calling out to shell'. Like using `subprocess.run(...)` in Python. My suspicion is that works like cmd.exe? edit: answe…

fun fact: source maps are used by some Tor onion sites ("dark net") as part of a captcha process without using JavaScript. If you present the user with an image, and ask them to cl…

Same. Recently Ubiquiti has been putting more and more into the local API, so this should be getting easier to do. The Home Assistant UniFi integration just recently has started mo…

Free Free is celebrating this DEA rule because they say they're exempt due to their use of natural kratom leaf, not synthetic: https://botanictonics.com/pages/consumer-education I …

I doubt it. This is just normal Windows behavior. If you call out to a shell and have it run a `git` command the system has to decide where the git binary is. A quirk of Windows is…

On Windows, if your shell was in a malicious repo's directory and you ran any "git" command, wouldn't the behavior be the same? Binaries in the current directory are considered bef…

This is false. Sea water is >3% salt and human kidneys can't produce urine with that much salinity or greater. Since they need more water to extract that much salt, the net effect …

persistent.oaistatic.com for OAI software. Not just a subdomain, but a whole separate domain, making it easy !

Wow, stories like this make me happy that I block all ChatGPT/Claude/Codex/etc updates by default, and only selectively update on demand. I do this just by setting a network rule t…

I would love it if a grocery store, or Uber, or Amazon, made it easy to see my yearly spend. Instead them to intentionally obscure this and try to prevent you from seeing a big num…