Articles by chatmasta
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Ask HN: Why can't we just make more RAM?

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Shelfware (wikipedia.org)

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Exploring UK companies' legal ownership chains to detect red flags (2020) (taxjustice.net)

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Convoy Steamroller (tedium.co)

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&udm=14: the disenshittification Konami code (remove AI from Google results) (udm14.com)

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Coco Explorer – Common objects in context (cocodataset.org)

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Postgres 18 OAuth2 Authentication – Building a Custom OAuth2 Validator in Rust (enterprisedb.com)

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Ask HN: How to stop iOS from including contact names in Autocorrect dictionary?

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Inspection Fact Sheet (fcc.gov)

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Ask HN: Has your YouTube homepage gotten suddenly generic and bad?

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Do Stars Outnumber the Sands of Earth's Beaches? (scientificamerican.com)

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The peak-end rule: How do our memories differ from our experiences? (thedecisionlab.com)

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The Role of Skill in Matchmaking [pdf] (activision.com)

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Ask HN: When did archive.is start to work with Cloudflare?

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Wireless Application Protocol (wikipedia.org)

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Sleep and Dream Database (sleepanddreamdatabase.org)

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Using VLC to watch an m3u8 playlist at a URL with custom Referrer and User Agent (gist.github.com)

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Reverse Turing test experiment with AIs [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Why do government services force you to call them or write a letter?

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UTC+08:45 (wikipedia.org)

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Runescape Archive – How to Help (rs-archive.github.io)

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Fiducial Marker (wikipedia.org)

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Planes, Ferries and Automobiles: How I Hacked Free Travel Across Iceland (debug.is)

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Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems [pdf] (usenix.org)

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BGPWatch: A comprehensive platform for detecting/diagnosing hijacking incidents (apnic.net)

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Cross Window Forgery: A Web Attack Vector (paulosyibelo.com)

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Google Chrome V8 CVE-2024-0517 Out-of-Bounds Write Code Execution (exodusintel.com)

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OnionCat: Transparent IPv6 layer on top of Tor hidden services or I2P tunnels (github.com/rahra)

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A crazy privilege escalation from Chrome extensions (2023) (0x44.xyz)

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K Foundation Burn a Million Quid (wikipedia.org)

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Noticeable changes to zoom levels before navigation completes (chromium.org)

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Ask HN: Will YouTube Premium subscribers ever be forced to watch ads?

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Random-Access Machine (wikipedia.org)

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How Not to Talk to Your Kids (2007) (nymag.com)

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List of Microsoft Administrator Sites (msportals.io)

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United States National Radio Quiet Zone (wikipedia.org)

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Beyond XSS: Explore the Web Front-End Security Universe (aszx87410.github.io)

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Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it (deform.co)

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Is a JavaScript array index a string or an integer? (stackoverflow.com)

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macOS Sonoma Breaks WiFi Explorer since scan is missing VHT, EHT Multi-link info (twitter.com/intuitibits)

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NSO Group Whistleblower Policies (nsogroup.com)

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CSP, WTF? – Explanations of common CSP violations sent to report-URI endpoint (github.com/nico3333fr)

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MGM Grand is hiring a RHEL sysadmin contractor for $110 per hour 70 hours a week (twitter.com/thekenchilds)

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Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions (portswigger.net)

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Special-Use Domain Names (iana.org)

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Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses (bbc.com)

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iOS 16.6.1 fixes two vulnerabilities known to be actively exploited in the wild (support.apple.com)

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We built a ChatGPT plugin that knows how to query 40k+ open datasets with SQL (splitgraph.com)

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Compiling Golang to WASM: Writing UDFs for Seafowl (splitgraph.com)

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Building a GPT-powered agent to answer questions using open data from Splitgraph (splitgraph.com)

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Building data pipelines with Dagster and Seafowl (splitgraph.com)

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Using Dagster to push data into Seafowl (splitgraph.com)

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Poll: “A SQL query” or “an SQL query?”

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Poll: A SQL query or an SQL query?

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SQLite file uploads: share and query them with Postgres (splitgraph.com)

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Increase MAX_MOVES to prevent buffer overflow and stack corruption (github.com/official-stockfish)

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Tracking Russian jet fuel with rail freight data and Seafowl (datadesk.eco)

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Federated Credential Management API (chrome.com)

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Ask HN: Can I safely run a made-in-China Single Board Computer as my firewall?

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SQLite file uploads: publish, share, and query them with Postgres (splitgraph.com)

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Monitor additions and deletions of open government datasets in a daily newsfeed (splitgraph.io)

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A Lakehouse by the sea: Migrating Seafowl storage layer to delta-rs (splitgraph.com)

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Virgin Media (BGP 5089) has been down for 2 hours across all of UK (twitter.com/cloudflareradar)

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Ask HN: What if AGI isn't that close?

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Cadaver Synod (wikipedia.org)

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Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT (twitter.com/steventey)

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Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz (2019) (youtube.com)

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How to Escape from the Simulation [pdf] (theseedsofscience.org)

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Biden White House Pressured Meta to Moderate Texts on WhatsApp (davidzweig.substack.com)

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ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar (reddit.com)

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Poll: Is Twitter better or worse since Elon Musk bought it?

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Open Data Monitor: Newsfeed tracking added/deleted datasets on gov data portals (splitgraph.io)

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IPInfo Country and ASN Data Queryable via PostgreSQL (splitgraph.com)

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Design Patterns in TypeScript (refactoring.guru)

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Large Chinese reconnaissance balloon spotted over the US, officials say (go.com)

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Does Firefox share my location with websites? (support.mozilla.org)

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Show HN: Track added and deleted datasets on Socrata government data portals (splitgraph.io)

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Inherit environment variables from PID 1 by reading /proc/1/environ (gist.github.com)

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Mancala (wikipedia.org)

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Apple only lets me choose a default search engine from its pre-approved list (twitter.com/milesrichardson)

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SARS-CoV-2 evolution, post-Omicron (virological.org)

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Show HN: Single command Tor + sshd for reverse shell debugging of CI containers (github.com/milesrichardson)

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Transporting UDP Tunnels over Tor (whonix.org)

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Seafowl: Database for analytics at the edge, with DataFusion and WASM UDF (seafowl.io)

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DIY DNA Sequencer (2018)