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owlninjaon 26,400 live credentials found scanning 7.25M repos on China's Gitee

From the article

> It has no public equivalent of the platform-vendor secret-scanning partnerships that have become standard on GitHub.

owlninjaon An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada

And mosquito city during the fall here in Texas

His last blog entry was a tough read this morning as I sit at my desk for another day at the long day factory wondering if I should be doing more with the time I have because you just never know when it is up. RIP.

owlninjaon Gemini 4 Argon

I'm Ultra and seeing it now (US)

owlninjaon Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?

I randomly discovered https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories a few weeks ago

owlninjaon What is going on with ceiling fans

> Sometimes new design phenomena slip past even those of us who are most in tune with the happenings of the built environment.

I went to Wayfair and searched ceiling fans and holy moly this space has changed! I thought to myself, "I don't see these when walking through my local bigbox hardware store?" So I went to Lowe's website and fandeliers are an entire category now.

owlninjaon 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops

And a skip button breaks the immersion!

owlninjaon Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

Totally unrelated but I google'd their username to see if there was a clue, and I had no idea this feed existed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

owlninjaon The Cables That Connect the World

The tab titles it changes to are pretty funny

owlninjaon Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Same here. I see so many people obsessing over the latest most state of the art bleeding edge models and yelling at Google for not being there, but I feel like the vast majority of people don't actually need those models. Flash has just been super useful and incredibly fast in my experience.

owlninjaon Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

Here's a gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick...

owlninjaon Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

I clicked the button on my Logitech M720 mouse to free spin, spun the wheel like I was on the Price is Right, and got to 791,001!

owlninjaon I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

This is a funny but sad coincidence! I'll chime in the same as others, I've had tinnitus for 20+ years and I know it is all due to one event. Somedays if I am tired or stressed it gets worse, and then some days I have so much going on I don't think about it (much). But sometimes when I have a calm moment or if I am on vacation trying to relax, I really have no idea what silence sounds like anymore.

owlninjaon Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

I think he was referring to an obvious typo "publicity benefit corporation"

owlninjaon Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet

I love stories like this. A subtle reminder how inconsequential our actions are on this planet in the grand, unplanned scheme. I look forward to reading HN with my breakfast each morning then going to a job that helps me raise a family and have fun on the weekends. I read stories of war, corruption, sadistic leaders, and great suffering. I've learned to appreciate the joys of life and have come to terms that we are not here for a long time - just for a good time.

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

-Bill Watterson

owlninjaon Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

owlninjaon Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

Or future releases will just use Unreal Engine or something pre-existing :(

owlninjaon Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

I just pre-ordered the 4K UHD remaster of The Sopranos, and while on the Gruv site I saw another UHD remaster of a movie I enjoy and ordered it. I am excited to experience this (haven't watched physical media in forever), but I was planning on using my PS5. My research also confirms that standalone players are legit, but they are more expnsive than I figured! I guess I'll give one a try and hope this isn't another addiction...

owlninjaon How H-E-B Became Texas' Most Beloved Brand (2024)

I'll avoid going during super busy times (which is always) but if the meal calls for tortillas I am going to HEB.

owlninjaon Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators

I read a book this year about sports gambling in the US [1], and it points out how nasty and predatory it is. I think "prediction markets" have even less regulation? I would talk to my sports fan buddies at work and they would say "oh, just how sportsbooks in Vegas operate already", but this is on-demand, in your face, constantly nudging you to bet with dark patterns and "comps". I used to want sports gambling legal in the US, but the way it has gone is incredibly disgusting and is starting to make watching sports almost annoying. The crawl on the bottom is no longer scores, but moneylines...

[1] "Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling" (2026) by Danny Funt

owlninjaon Map of Metal

Very nice! As soon as I saw the landing page and the loading/start button I immediately thought of Flash.

owlninjaon OnlyCats – TikTok for Cats

At first I was picturing short videos that cats would enjoy watching, but this is nice too!

owlninjaon I want to live like Costco people

I have a Sam's Club membership primarily because it is much closer to me than Costco. I hate the crowds but it baffles me there are lines when the scan & go app exists! And I swear last time I went they weren't even scanning receipts, but you walked through some sort of gateway?

owlninjaon Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026

Aaron Parsley of Texas Monthly For his extraordinary personal account of survival and loss written days after the historic Central Texas floods that tore the writer’s house out from under him and his family, taking the life of his nephew.

Love Texas Monthly, this was a tough read after that awful flood incident:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-first...

owlninjaon Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years

The times had a little story relevant to this recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/japan-cherry-blos...

owlninjaon The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

A little curious about this website, I just pulled up the local menu (Texas) and the same burger is $2.19.

owlninjaon Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December

It has not been the department of war since 1947, it is more disrespectful to me, the reader.

owlninjaon Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December

> But former President Jimmy Carter in 1980 reinstated the Selective Service in the event of a “national emergency,” where the registry could be used to “provide personnel to the Department of War and alternative service for conscientious objectors, if authorized by the President and Congress.”

Department of Defense*