Hacker News: 1e1a

New comment by 1e1a in "Show HN: Google Maps Scraper MCP"

1e1a — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:17:05 +0000

Noo don't encourage Google to lock down their API

New comment by 1e1a in "Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator"

1e1a — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:54:17 +0000

Can it create functional mechanisms using LEGO Technic parts?

New comment by 1e1a in "Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers"

1e1a — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:52:09 +0000

This is absolutely fantastic! Testing with an esp32-s3, it looks like the tuning range is roughly 2.2GHz to 2.8Ghz, which covers far more than just WiFi. It should be possible to receive and demodulate S-band satellite downlinks using this < $2 chip with a dish.

New comment by 1e1a in "America.gov"

1e1a — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:25:51 +0000

*gouv.fr

New comment by 1e1a in "America.gov"

1e1a — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:48:37 +0000

I got it to state "I still can't recap or discuss what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021."

New comment by 1e1a in "When did Google get so weird?"

1e1a — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:08:24 +0000

I absolutely despise when people cite google as a source, especially now where 90% of the time they're citing the LLM overview. The old answer widget was at least a direct quote from some website.

New comment by 1e1a in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

1e1a — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:22:50 +0000

700 humans working 24/7?

New comment by 1e1a in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

1e1a — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:48:18 +0000

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM for localization by matching altimeter measurements to a terrain map

New comment by 1e1a in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

1e1a — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:10:04 +0000

I never want my new chats contaminated with information from previous sessions for this exact reason.

New comment by 1e1a in "Measure internet censorship"

1e1a — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:13:49 +0000

Would be cool if it also measured the latency and throughput across many different protocols to detect deviations from net neutrality.

Noise-Coded Illumination for Forensic and Photometric Video Analysis

1e1a — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:42:39 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23002

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722515

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 1e1a in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

1e1a — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:58:30 +0000

Or navigate to the link without waiting for however long it takes for Google's redirect endpoint to respond.

New comment by 1e1a in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

1e1a — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:45:38 +0000

I've just checked this again using a google account where search result pages are still following the old behavior: It looks like the 'href' attribute is the direct link, and the 'ping' attribute is the /url redirect link you are referring to. So it looks like it is actually sending me to the direct link, it just also requests /url at the same time in order to log the click. This means the user was not waiting for the logging/redirect request to come back.

New comment by 1e1a in "Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results"

1e1a — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:34:44 +0000

Oh that is true, I forgot they changed that.

New comment by 1e1a in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

1e1a — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:28:33 +0000

JavaScript being disabled - Google was already sending analytics pings when search result links were clicked on, using JS.

New comment by 1e1a in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

1e1a — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:21:46 +0000

It looks like it isn't yet rolled out to some users, try with a different browser session.

New comment by 1e1a in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

1e1a — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:14:20 +0000

Direct URLs in Google search results have been replaced with redirect URLs in the form of www.google.com/goto?url=.

The base64 data appears to consist of a very basic protobuf structure, containing a long string of bytes in field 2 which presumably identify the URL.

Sometimes, these redirect URLs take a perceivable amount of time to load, which is very irritating.

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

1e1a — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:14:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668386

Points: 681

# Comments: 554

New comment by 1e1a in "iPhone Duo"

1e1a — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:33:24 +0000

It's still folding in half, so you can have have one app taking up the whole screen, or two half-screen apps, all with the same aspect ratio.

New comment by 1e1a in "iPhone Duo"

1e1a — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:06:27 +0000

From Apple's diagonal measurements [1], it looks like the screen is actually a few mm off from the closest ISO 216 sizes.

d = 7.58in = 192.532mm [1]

d^2 = w^2+h^2

Unfolded:

h = d/sqrt(3) = ~111.1584mm

w = h*sqrt(2) = ~157.2017mm

Closest ISO 216 size: A6 (105x148)

Folded:

D = 5.36in = 136.114mm [1]

H = D/sqrt(3) = ~78.5855mm

W = H*sqrt(2) = ~111.1366mm

Closest ISO 216 size: A7 (74x105)

[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/specs/