Hacker News: fluxist

New comment by fluxist in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

fluxist — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:20:32 +0000

A command to recursively check for the compromised axios package version:

   find / -path '*/node_modules/axios/package.json' -type f 2>/dev/null | while read -l f; set -l v (grep -oP '"version"\s*:\s\*"\K(1\.14\.1|0\.30\.4)' $f 2>/dev/null); if test -n "$v"; printf '\a\n\033[1;31m FOUND v%s\033[0m  \033[1;33m%s\033[0m\n' $v (string replace '/package.json' '' -- $f); else; printf '\r\033[2m scanning: %s\033[K\033[0m' (string sub -l 70 -- $f); end; end; printf '\r\033[K\n\033[1;32m scan complete\033[0m\n'

Microplastics May Be Tied to Vascular Dementia Cases

fluxist — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:16:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-may-be-tied-to-vascular-dementia-cases-review-finds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657625

Points: 35

# Comments: 1

New comment by fluxist in "FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses"

fluxist — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:58:28 +0000

I've had monovision after LASIK for about 5 years now. The brain adjusts in a few weeks and you cease to notice it. It rises to my awareness when I close one eye. Occasionally I'll notice it when trying to focus on something outside the center of my field of view but generally, no. It's an effective way to preserve near and far vision simultaneously.

That said, I've heard a fair number of people hate it and I get that.

New comment by fluxist in "Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights"

fluxist — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:10:12 +0000

The Economist and MIT Technology Review, off the top of my head, use the diaresis as well.

Bromo-Dragonfly

fluxist — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:01:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/bromo_dragonfly/bromo_dragonfly.shtml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42695902

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fluxist in "Magnesium in Drug Abuse and Addiction (2011)"

fluxist — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:49:12 +0000

Such a commonly available intervention, I'm a bit skeptical that this works.

In my own first-person experience, magnesium supplementation has had no discernable effect on Cocaine Use Disorder.

N-acetylcysteine (NAC), on the other hand, has had a minor but noticeable ability to mitigate cravings.[1]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28213190/

New comment by fluxist in "New gel breaks down alcohol in the body"

fluxist — Tue, 14 May 2024 18:14:56 +0000

Dihydromyricetin[1] can accomplish this remarkably effectively. It's available on Amazon.

Also works great for hangovers.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292407/

New comment by fluxist in "US set to unveil long-awaited crackdown on real estate money laundering"

fluxist — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:49:33 +0000

The Corporate Transparency Act passed in 2020 ended anonymous LLC ownership in the US.

Ja Rule is selling a physical painting from his Fyre Festival days as an NFT

fluxist — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:51:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/ja-rule-sells-nft-fyre-festival-painting-flipkick-2021-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26492860

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Convicts Ordered to Stay Offline Try to Slip Their Digital Leashes

fluxist — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:47:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/computer-internet-restrictions-probation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20069737

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Beach Pneumatic Transit

fluxist — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:37:15 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195790

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by fluxist in "Anomalous keys in Tor relays"

fluxist — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 22:28:59 +0000

Targeted hidden services:

   222222avkcjpcbwi
   22222tolarsrblkw
   22u75kqyl666joi2
   bxgxtfeka5jlfoxi
   e65rngozye7xbzlo
   escrowxzvepij47i
   freebay3yuvebsog
   ghemfwgrouuy5rsl
   h7f3q4yiw6rfpzwz
   jumpwtfbk44aa37y
   kpvz7ki2v5agwt35
   luavqzwze3mduxyw
   lzxsffcd6pn4bg2w
   n3q7l52nfpm77vnf
   silkroadvb5piz3r
   tc43p6yceci5gh2y
   thehub7gqe43miyc
   tssa3saypkimmkcy
   tz4732fxpkehod36
   vljyah4v3i3xiebn
   wd43uqrbjwe6hpre
   xcvwjwwnzjh3og2s
   xnyvcjj6ybauprjx

Presence of the original Silk Road would indicate at least a pre-2014 start. Also a few other early darknet markets in there.

Panic Attacks as a Problem of pH (2010)

fluxist — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 07:25:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/panic-attacks-as-ph-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566069

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Deceptive curcumin offers cautionary tale for chemists

fluxist — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:51:43 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nature.com/news/deceptive-curcumin-offers-cautionary-tale-for-chemists-1.21269

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13405227

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by fluxist in "Real-time emotional voices with D.A.V.I.D"

fluxist — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 02:59:24 +0000

Nor can I very well. After some googling, I see that apparently this would be called "auditory affective agnosia" (if it were at the level of neuropsychological pathology). I wonder if this software could be used diagnostically in disorders that are associated with deficits in empathy or emotional identification -- autism, Antisocial or Narcissistic Personality Disorders, etc.

Perhaps it could also be used as a therapeutic tool. One could train with it in order to reduce the affective threshold at which one detects emotion.

New comment by fluxist in "Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison"

fluxist — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 06:52:05 +0000

When I was in, there was at least one "celebrity" inmate living with me maintaining his twitter feed in the same way -- dictating to a friend over the phone. A twitter feed on its own is not indicative of the experience and brutality of his incarceration. Hopefully he'll speak to that himself and raise awareness. But do not doubt, he faces a threat to his safety by doing so.

I think, with an eye toward's the arc of history, that some day I'll see Chelsea Manning's term commuted and Edward Snowden pardoned.

I hope, at least. It's a disturbing alternative to countenance. In this country the prisoner is always regarded as subhuman. And his suffering is effectively irrelevant.

New comment by fluxist in "Pulling JPEGs out of thin air"

fluxist — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:52:23 +0000

It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway :)

New comment by fluxist in "Freedom from Food"

fluxist — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:34:45 +0000

I was so excited to finally get my Soylent and give it a go. I really wanted to like it. Unfortunately by the second day I found it aversively unpalatable, almost sickening to drink. Along with intense gastrointestinal distress (think food poisoning-level liquefaction) I gave up and now its sitting in the box under my desk collecting dust. I wouldn't even put it in a bomb shelter, I think it would decrease my chances of survival.