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caprockon 5k Years Later, Beavers Return to the High Plains of West Texas

This is a pleasant story. It's nice to know there can still be mystery around us, even near urban areas.

Thank you for sharing!

caprockon The unpleasant surprises of genetic ancestry testing

Repeating this comment from a similar story:

Does anyone know of good DNA testing services which destroy the sample and all data, after delivering the results to the customer?

caprockon I tracked everything I read on the internet for a year

This is a neat writeup. It's fun to think about how to potentially automate this kind of tracking.

> I wish there was an easy way to filter by "independent websites"

This side comment from the post is intriguing. Other than manual curation, I wonder if there is a way to identify commercial vs independent domains? This would make a really good entry point for a specialty search engine for indie sites only.

caprockon What does it mean to know the risk embedded in your DNA?

Does anyone know of good DNA testing services which destroy the sample and all data, after delivering the results to the customer?

caprockon Ask HN: Is it okay to just bootstrap it, even when VCs are knocking?

Your situation sounds awesome, and I don't think your preference sounds weird at all. Congrats on the success!

You can find more like minded folks in the Indie Hacker community, if you haven't run across it yet.

See https://www.indiehackers.com/

caprockon The silent majority in software

Are you referring to situations like work, or do you feel that way about the online world as well?

caprockon Creativity requires solitude

That's an interesting perspective. It's been clear to me that creativity often arises from constraints, but I'd not really flipped the concept around like that before. Thank you for sharing!

caprockon Creativity requires solitude

Well said. Your point leads me (once again) to wonder. Is programming, or some specific aspect of it, fundamentally a creative practice?

caprockon Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?

Browsing through these can be inspiring:

https://webring.xxiivv.com

caprockon SEC Gag Orders Silence the Accused

Does anyone know more about the case noted in the article? Are there public lists of SEC settlements?

caprockon Ask HN: What do you consider unsafe working conditions in a tech company?

I'm curious, what were the sparcs doing?

caprockon Learning to Love Myself

Thank you for those helpful words

caprockon Ask HN: Starting a Career in Programming at 61?

Really good points, thank you

caprockon Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?

whether or not I was working my brain was

Did you find you were thinking more about technical problems or about problems related to management of people?

caprockon C3.js: D3-based reusable chart library

For dense data like that, you might give dygraphs a try.

caprockon New domain bitstress.com being used in dns amplification attacks

Many dns amplification attacks have made use of the domain isc.org due to it's large size and entry count. It looks like someone has now registered and setup the new domain bitstress.com, as a possible alternative. Note the large number of odd entries in the zone.

Some people have been using iptables to suppress dns amplification attacks, by referencing isc.org with variations on the following theme/hash:

-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --dport 53 -m string --hex-string "|03697363036f726700|" --algo bm --to 65535 -j just-drop

Here's a new variation for the new bitstress.com domain:

-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --dport 53 -m string --hex-string "|0962697473747265737303636f6d00|" --algo bm --to 65535 -j just-drop

caprockon Horse_ebooks Is Human After All

For those interested, here's some background on the pronunciation book side of the story:

http://77days.wikia.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy_W...

caprockon How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio

Dalio has also written papers on this and related topics [0]. Originally, there were three separate papers, but it looks like they've been combined in to a new draft. The three main sections:

* How the Economic Machine Works

* Debt Cycles: Leveragings & Deleveragings

* Productivity: Why Countries Succeed & Fail Over the Long Term

[0] http://www.bwater.com/home/research--press/how-the-economic-...