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1f60c··on Pa – a simple password manager based on age
Maybe I’m missing something, but why would you trust any app to securely store your passwords (or store them at all) but specifically mistrust their browser extension?
1f60c··on Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games
MUD?
1f60c··on I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig
Thank you!

Note that improvements from GitHub Code Search have been integrated into the main website, which means you can do something like this:

https://github.com/search?q=lang%3AZig%20%2F%22https%3F%3A%5...

1f60c··on I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig
How do y’all find out how to do things in Zig? The documentation as it currently exists is very brain dumpy (which makes sense, as the language is still young), so it’s hard for me to find exactly what I’m looking for.
1f60c··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?
The war in Ukraine will continue, but (more?) cracks will start to form in the Western response come springtime.

OpenAI introduces a new and improved version of GPT-3, and more people will ask questions about ethics and resource consumption.

More politicians will attempt to ban TikTok in the US, but they will be unsuccessful.

Twitter will suffer a devastating breach, and the fediverse will continue to grow.

1f60c··on Detecting potential cheaters in Advent of Code Leaderboards
Why?

The leaderboard fills up in anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes. I bet it would take people at least as long to come up with a suitable prompt (just copying the text on the site doesn’t work), refine the response, and implement the solution.

1f60c··on Welcome to Comprehensive Rust
Is this “just” a 20% project or is this more significant (like Android one day supporting Rust to develop apps)?

And I haven’t looked at everything yet, but it suggests to install Rust like this:

  sudo apt install cargo rust-src
While everyone I know uses rustup^:

  curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
^ https://rustup.rs/
1f60c··on Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
AFAIK, scheduled GitHub workflows stop running after a while. But when that happens, GitHub will send you an email with a big green “Continue running workflow” button.
1f60c··on Show HN: Get answers for shell commands from GPT3 from your terminal
The Warp terminal^ has something like this built in.

^ https://www.warp.dev/

1f60c··on You Might Also Like
I think Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use, but whether the terminal is the right place to put ads is a different question.
1f60c··on Privacy respecting weather app for Android
I was curious how a foreign university obtained a .EDU domain, but apparently, foreign universities could register a .EDU domain before 2001.
1f60c··on Google search was giving errors when searching “how many emojis on iOS”
I don't think the public will ever learn what went wrong here, but whichever Googler fixes this will have one heck of a war story to tell over drinks.
1f60c··on Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by Cloudflare
I think changing the comma to a colon and adding "a" before "privacy-preserving" would make the title clearer.
1f60c··on Game Programming Patterns (2014)
The author explains why in the first chapter^:

> The goal of this book is not to teach you C++. The samples are kept as simple as possible and don’t represent good C++ style or usage. Read the code samples for the idea being expressed, not the code expressing it.

>

> In particular, the code is not written in “modern” — C++11 or newer — style. It does not use the standard library and rarely uses templates. This makes for “bad” C++ code, but I hope that by keeping it stripped down, it will be more approachable to people coming from C, Objective-C, Java, and other languages.

^ https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/introduction.html#about-...

1f60c··on About Lockdown Mode
I think the primary user base will be human rights activists and journalists, similar to Google’s Advanced Protection Program.
1f60c··on About Lockdown Mode
The only way I can think of that could work is if an attacker made a website (and convinced the target to visit it) that said something like:

> Tap Aa > Disable Lockdown Mode to view News Org secure content

Similarly to how malicious Word docs get users to enable macros.

1f60c··on Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find
I know, right? The Dutch version of Wikipedia says he's worked at Microsoft since 1992. You're bound to hear some interesting stories during that time.

(Somewhat surprisingly, the English version of Wikipedia does not have an article about him. Raymond Chen (Microsoft) redirects to an article about the now-defunct Microsoft Developer Network, which mentions him once, in passing.)

1f60c··on MegaPortraits: One-Shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatars
The photos at the top of the page are the researchers—the demos (two videos) are a bit further down the page.
1f60c··on Mold/macOS is 11 times faster than the Apple's default linker to link Chrome
> $200K is nowadays an annual total compensation of a junior dev

*in the US.

In my country, those salaries are completely unheard of.

1f60c··on Apple Passkey
I don’t understand how passkeys aren’t stored on external servers and can’t be phished, and yet they sync via iCloud Keychain (which is a nice thing to have). How does that work? Or do you have to trust Apple not to get hacked?
1f60c··on An autonomous car in SF blocked a fire truck responding to an emergency
SFFD and Cruise contradict each other on this point, which doesn’t make it any less confusing.
1f60c··on Amazon releases 51-language dataset for language understanding
"Laat me mijn wekkers zien" is indeed a bit odd, but it makes sense if you think of it in the context of a voice assistant that displays information on a screen.
1f60c··on MIT-0 License
No, the licenses themselves are protected by copyright as well. But the only license I can think of that explicitly states this fact is GPLv3, which begins:

  Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>

  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
1f60c··on NSA, CISA Release Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]
The sibling comments explain why the link contains sound advice, so I'll just add this: you are ultimately responsible for the security of your Kubernetes cluster, whether you get your hardening tips from william1964 on Stack Overflow, or the NSA.
1f60c··on RT turns to Peter Thiel's Rumble after Big Tech companies block the network
It is correct (i.e. the article is on the linked page), but it is a live blog. I suggest changing the link to https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/03/world/russia-ukraine..., which will hopefully work for the foreseeable future.
1f60c··on Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML
Let's hope their lawyers don't read HN. :-)
1f60c··on Format Strings in Rust 1.58
A little hack: if you know the C-style format string you want to use, use that. The build will fail, of course, but Rust will tell you what to use instead.
1f60c··on Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language
You could provide a demo with a fixed prompt that will (for example) always read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article about avocados.
1f60c··on Knock Knock Who's There? – An NSA VM
I'm assuming they want some protection against adtech companies or the local coffee shop sysadmin. Running Firefox in the cloud "to avoid detection by the NSA" would indeed be quite foolish.
1f60c··on CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University
I don't understand the outrage. Even knowing the context, the email is polite, to the point, tells the website administrator exactly what they need to do (something they are already legally required to do), and gives them ample time to do so.
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