Hacker News: Omni5cience

New comment by Omni5cience in "Exif Smuggling (2025)"

Omni5cience — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:14:53 +0000

Why is this a link to a random fork that has no commits, rather than the original?

New comment by Omni5cience in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

Omni5cience — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:41:19 +0000

Doctors regularly have people's lives in their hands and if they make a significant mistake, they are liable. Not that the current state of medical malpractice law is exactly the gold standard, but that's an example of another approach to a similar situation. I do hear that some folks avoid the profession because of that, but I don't think that it's the case that "no reasonable person" wants to work in healthcare.

I don't think most reasonable people want police to be personally liable for every single thing they do, but neither do they want them to have broad and complete immunity from the law. The answer is somewhere in the middle, where police are protected in certain situations, but do still need to think about the consequences of their actions.

New comment by Omni5cience in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

Omni5cience — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:25:05 +0000

I'm not sure what you're arguing against here, but it seems clear to me that the comment you're replying to was drawing a comparison to the military.

New comment by Omni5cience in "Code and Let Live"

Omni5cience — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:59:33 +0000

I noticed the same thing, I suspect it's hallucinated. It seems like the correct package is @fly/sprites --https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fly/sprites

New comment by Omni5cience in "Zero Day in Microchip SAM Microcontrollers"

Omni5cience — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:00:56 +0000

Minor nitpick, but Sam in the title should be SAM. (It’s an acronym.)

New comment by Omni5cience in "Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement"

Omni5cience — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:26:38 +0000

I think this was Capistrano, but you're right I that's quite the throwback as well.

New comment by Omni5cience in "Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative"

Omni5cience — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:07:17 +0000

I think the parent commenter is referring to a general dislike for target="_blank" (i.e. new tab) links. Probably because there's a way to force a link to open in a new tab, but not a consistent way to force it to open in the same tab.

New comment by Omni5cience in "We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger"

Omni5cience — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 01:16:01 +0000

https://archive.ph/xcad7

New comment by Omni5cience in "Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song"

Omni5cience — Tue, 28 May 2024 20:29:38 +0000

Basically it's a setting for people who are concerned about being targeted by 0days.

> Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

New comment by Omni5cience in "Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's"

Omni5cience — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:14:38 +0000

I think most non-perishable goods are the same across stores. There are regional differences between some perishable goods based on where they come from.

New comment by Omni5cience in "FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease"

Omni5cience — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:50:13 +0000

This feels like the plot to a dystopian science fiction story. You’re effectively arguing in favor of eugenics…

New comment by Omni5cience in "Texas death row inmate at mercy of supreme court, and junk science"

Omni5cience — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:47:12 +0000

AFAICT The Junk Science at play here is not that SBS doesn't exist, but that the triad of symptoms is enough to definitively prove SBS.

The reference to Texas is because the subject of the article is a particular case in Texas (with references to other laws/cases in Texas like the "junk science writ" and Kosoul Chanthakoummane whose case had nothing to do with SBS). The reference to hypnosis is sort of orthogonal to SBS, it's used as another example of junk science in the article.

This section of the article is probably the most relevant:

Paradoxically, Texas is a leader in countering junk science. In 2013, the state introduced a first-in-the-nation “junk science writ” that allowed prisoners – especially those on death row – to challenge sentences on grounds of misused forensic science. It was under this law that in 2016 Sween saved Roberson from imminent death by securing a stay of execution four days before his scheduled lethal injection.

But the hope generated by the new junk science law in Texas has proven a chimera. There have been about 70 attempts by death row inmates to utilize the law and of those the number that have obtained relief is zero.

Kosoul Chanthakoummane was one of those who appealed through the junk science law. He had been put on death row on the back of three different types of junk science: hypnosis of a witness to obtain identification, bitemark analysis and a discredited form of DNA testimony.

In August 2022, Texas executed him anyway.

New comment by Omni5cience in "Alice’s Restaurant: An American Thanksgiving Tradition"

Omni5cience — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 19:09:19 +0000

FWIW this seems to be a NY focused publication and my understanding is that the tradition started on WNEW. I grew up listening to it, but I have no idea how far it’s spread outside of the NYC metro area.

New comment by Omni5cience in "Tough Turban: an open-source design for turban-wearing motorcyclists"

Omni5cience — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 03:36:27 +0000

I’m not the parent commenter, but I believe they’re making the case that there are negative externalities that come from not wearing protective equipment which are borne by others in some form or another. In Canada, for example, there is a very direct cost to others because of their universal healthcare.

New comment by Omni5cience in "Neovim 0.5 is overpowering"

Omni5cience — Wed, 26 May 2021 19:01:27 +0000

You're right, for most simple use cases it doesn't matter. But I once spent an hour on a weird bug that turned out to just be some plugin applying a map that I didn't know about and that I didn't know about map expansion. So I might be biased, but I think a loose understanding is helpful.

The default behavior is to recursively expand and apply your mappings and "noremap" disables this recursion. For example if you do something like

  :map j k
  :map q j
  :noremap w j

q is expanded to k, but w is expanded to j

New comment by Omni5cience in "Run Chrome apps in Electron"

Omni5cience — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 01:32:33 +0000

I think the reasoning is less nefarious, Chrome apps never got that much love on other platforms, and I'm guessing they want to move towards Progressive Web Apps.

CEO of America–Should we care about a candidates previous experience?

Omni5cience — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:00:16 +0000

Article URL: http://www.countingcalculi.com/features/does_presidential_experience_matters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11927039

Points: 1

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DNC Hacker Releases Trump Oppo Report

Omni5cience — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:14:29 +0000

Article URL: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/dnc-hacker-leaks-trump-oppo-report-647293

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11912559

Points: 12

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New comment by Omni5cience in "New Chromecast 2015"

Omni5cience — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:47:28 +0000

I wonder what prompted the new form factor. I rather liked the simple HDMI stick aesthetic.

New comment by Omni5cience in "Anderson.vim: Dark vim colorscheme based on colors from Wes Anderson films"

Omni5cience — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:02:06 +0000

It works with the beta version (i.e. 2.9).