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treadmill··on Chrome extensions with 13.4M installs caught hijacking searches
The source article has a lot more details the bleeping ripoff.

https://socket.dev/blog/searchjacked

treadmill··on The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain
They say that as if that makes it ok.
treadmill··on French supermarket chains say cyberattack forced refrigerator shutdown
We told you so. We told you that you need to secure devices properly before connecting them to the internet. That you need to update them. We told you, that refrigerators have no business being online. No, it is not "just a refrigerator, who would ever want to attack it".

Who on earth thought this was a good idea.

treadmill··on Make Tmux the OS
This looks great, thank you for suggesting it! I will give it a try!
treadmill··on Make Tmux the OS
All of his wishes for window management are easily solved with i3 or a similar tiling wm. Even on macOS you can get a shitty version of it with yabai and skhd (both are awesome, it is entirely macos' fault that it still sucks).
treadmill··on Self-Driving bus in Sweden crashes with tram on first day of passenger service
Building self driving vehicles with current tech will not work reliably and is a bad idea.

We will learn this the hard way.

treadmill··on Why is AI trust so much higher in China (87%) than the US (32%)? [pdf]
They can't complain.
treadmill··on FreeBSD Device Drivers Book
I am unsure which part of the quoted content you disagree with .
treadmill··on Protein-maxxing, GLP-1s have US farmers betting on peas and lentils
> a social media-fueled protein craze

I may be out of the loop here, can someone fill me in on the context?

treadmill··on Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?
Read the BDD style acceptance tests that were written during development. This is the one chance you get to preserve that knowledge when it fresh and correct. Asking someone three years later (even the original dev) is no substitute. Oh, and you can also run the tests to ensure correctnes.
treadmill··on Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI
Talk is cheap. Remind me of this, if/when the "will build" has changed to "has built".
treadmill··on Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You
You should know, that by removing all alcohol, caffeine and sugar, red meat, bacon, eggs and sausages from your diet, you can get rid of what joy you have left in your life.
treadmill··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
Death and hatred to mankind

Poisoning their brainwashed minds

treadmill··on 30 Years Ago Windows 95 Changed Everything
It is mentioned in the first footnote.
treadmill··on It's cheaper to buy a new printer every month
There is probably a lot less ink in the included cartridges. They always get you. Don't print.
treadmill··on Flush door handles are the car industry's latest safety problem
Share the details of your calculations with us, please.
treadmill··on Formatting code should be unnecessary
You're misunderstanding the idea I think.

You would use the format on disk for the grep. "Your format" only exists displayed in your editor.

treadmill··on We built a simple text-to-image AI. Curious what HN thinks about it
Requires login to try it out :(
treadmill··on Gtk3-classic: Patches to bring back a traditional experience for GTK+3
Brilliant that somebody did this, have to give it a try!
treadmill··on Conventional Commit Messages
This is overcomplicating something simple for dubious benefit. Just write a concise subject line for the change and short description or a list of bullet points what you changed/added/removed and why.

Not everything has to have rules for some regular format.

treadmill··on Making the Python back end for my new webapp
> where multiple teams will work in the same codebase / repo

This is a bad idea in general and leads to all sorts of problems.

treadmill··on A Journey from Linux to FreeBSD
If I recall correctly, a certain amount of CPU, memory and processes has been reserved for root for a long time on FreeBSD. This would prevent the from bomb from exhausting all resources.
treadmill··on Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages (2022)
Can you expand on why?
treadmill··on A Scientist Says He Has the Evidence That We Live in a Simulation
Just some hand wavy arguments.
treadmill··on An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)
Try neovim + vlime!
treadmill··on An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)
Source?
treadmill··on Smoking bans are coming: what does the evidence say?
> died after an arrest

This is such a weird way to phrase it. He was murdered by a police officer who choked him to death.

treadmill··on Kate editor on all platforms
Xmodmap
treadmill··on The Future of NetBSD (2006)
Can someone knowledgeable in the past 20 years of NetBSD chime in how things developed from that point?
treadmill··on Many Patients Don't Survive End-Stage Poverty
Homelessness is literally trivial to fix. It is shameful that our society decides not to.
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