jwilk

What are the other implementations?

Previous discussions on moreutils:

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9013570 (36 comments)

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12023277 (56 comments)

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241986 (220 comments)

2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043655 (258 comments)

2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38814599 (59 comments)

TIL! This is what PDF 1.7 spec says (§4.7.1):

> Beginning with PDF 1.1, a content stream can include PostScript language fragments. These fragments are used only when printing to a PostScript output device; they have no effect either when viewing the document on-screen or when printing it to a non-PostScript device. In addition, applications that understand PDF are unlikely to be able to interpret the PostScript fragments. Hence, this capability should be used with extreme caution and only if there is no other way to achieve the same result. Inappropriate use of PostScript XObjects can cause PDF files to print incorrectly.

> Note: Since PDF 1.4 encompasses all of the Adobe imaging model features of the PostScript language, there is no longer any reason to use PostScript XObjects. This feature is likely to be removed from PDF in a future version.

> the PostScript support

What do you mean by that?

It uses the API, which hopefully is protected from bots less fiercely.

You can use https://github.com/jwilk/zygolophodon to read Mastodon posts in your terminal:

  $ zygolophodon --with-ancestors https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/117475976434068995

Yes, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189990

> I want to understand how it leaked

I'm confused. How do you know it leaked?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132198 (28 comments at the moment)

(2024)

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290881 ("Unicode 18.0.0 Beta", 3 months ago, 66 comments)

ITYM https://status.d420.de/

They do this by setting cookie "redesign_optout=true" for www.reddit.com (and then using that domain).

Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695459 (over 100 comments)

LSM = Linux Security Module

What's TCB though?

Also, fallocate+chmod is racy: between the two calls, an attacker could open the file, and then keep it open until next reboot. OTOH, mkswap creates the swap file with the correct permissions straight away.

The --size and --file options are relatively new, though: they were added in util-linux v2.40, released in 2024.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603335 (30 comments at the moment)

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562262 (22 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538096 (4 comments)

You can use www.reddit.com (yes, this domain, not old.reddit.com) with the old UI if you set cookie "redesign_optout=true".

It's a soft keyword: https://docs.python.org/3.15/reference/lexical_analysis.html...

> As soft keywords, their use in the grammar is possible while still preserving compatibility with existing code that uses these names as identifier names.

The HN submission title is a garden-path sentence:

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned

(Huh? How do you scan a company?)

The original title is easier to parse:

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned

Discussed in 2013:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069353 (105 comments)

Sadly the original domain has been usurped.

The lack or determinism is irrelevant. It's trivial to make an LLM deterministic (certianly much easier than to make a human deterministic!), but that wouldn't make it any more trustworthy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465158 (7 comments)

Hmm…

  To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest 1 to
  attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively 2 state
  the exclusion of warranty 3; and 4 each 5 file 6 should 7 have 8 at 9 10
  least 11 the 12 "copyright 13 line 14 and 15 a 16 pointer 17 to 18 where
  19 the 20 full 21 notice 22 is 23 found 24.

What's up with the numbers?

From the HN guidelines <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

Huh? Are you saying there's an Argon2 implementation in the kernel?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791 (over 200 comments at the moment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791 (over 200 comments at the moment)

Curiously, this makes Firefox display the default favicon (instead of no favicon):

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/raw/refs/heads/ma...