Hacker News: knute

New comment by knute in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

knute — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:47:47 +0000

Probably a repo for the Muslim affinity group within GitHub. You'll also see repos for the blacktocats, octoqueer, octogatos, christian-hubbers. Everything in GitHub has a repo.

New comment by knute in "Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software"

knute — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:53:36 +0000

additionally with the proposal "put together a list of known corporate MDM server URLs in a public repository" I think the idea could be to only block users with an MDM server from that list. of course that would have to be quite a large list and maintaining it fairly could be a challenge

New comment by knute in "Just use a button"

knute — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:02:34 +0000

Also a click handler on a div isn't going to do much for someone who isn't using a mouse, which would include a lot of screen reader users.

New comment by knute in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

knute — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:50:23 +0000

Sales and/or property taxes are typically used to make up the difference. TANSTAAFL

New comment by knute in "Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours"

knute — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:30:26 +0000

There's an IBM Deathstar (sold to Hitachi, sold to WD) model that has its own section, at least:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...

New comment by knute in "Torpedo juice: Legendary, illegal WWII liquor drunk in Alaska and the world"

knute — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:37:56 +0000

Not only did the magnetic fuses not work, the impact fuses would collapse and fail if the torpedo made a direct hit. And the torpedoes would consistently run deeper than they were set to. US torpedoes in the early stages of the war were nearly completely ineffective.

New comment by knute in "Why Bridges Don't Sink"

knute — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 13:22:41 +0000

I'm not an expert but I have seen Titanic (1997) and I would think a floating bridge is most vulnerable to sinking.

New comment by knute in "Open Sourcing DOS 4"

knute — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:02:17 +0000

And/or they cashed out $TEXAS in stock and rode off into the sunset.

New comment by knute in "My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)"

knute — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:02:36 +0000

I'm thinking it must be tornadoes. There were 907 tornadoes across all of 1984.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornado_events_by_year

New comment by knute in "Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers"

knute — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:08:29 +0000

It was before most of our times, but I don't think the Esso brand was "in the mud" when they rebranded to Exxon and that seems to have worked out ok for them.

New comment by knute in "New seafloor map only 25% done, with 6 years to go"

knute — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:21:38 +0000

Even at submarine depths, the oceans are poorly mapped. In 2005, the USS San Francisco collided with an uncharted (but suspected) seamount at 160m depth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Gr...

New comment by knute in "Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years"

knute — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:36:13 +0000

I also didn't realize that this problem was common, but I switched to using an optical toslink cable to an external DAC which seems to have fixed it for me. Although now the system volume control doesn't work, but I can work around that with the volume control on my amp.

New comment by knute in "W3C Leaves Twitter"

knute — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:31:13 +0000

> Twitter/X is still where everything happens

It's not where the W3C happens, clearly. That statement becomes less true by the day as more and more accounts leave.

New comment by knute in "Firefox on the brink?"

knute — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:44:16 +0000

Not just in absolute terms, what could possibly justify a 600% increase in salary in 7 years?

New comment by knute in "Group accused in $225K 'dice sliding' cheating scheme at Las Vegas casino"

knute — Sun, 28 May 2023 23:37:54 +0000

Typically you're supposed to throw the dice far enough that they bounce off the back wall. Maybe the electronic table doesn't enforce that?

New comment by knute in "War Is a Racket (1935)"

knute — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:05:16 +0000

> the united states is primarily run by business interests since the 80s

The 1880s.

New comment by knute in "Ask HN: Suing Facebook in small claims?"

knute — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:46:30 +0000

Even if arbitration is in play, it would cost Facebook more to hire a lawyer to go to small claims court and have it moved to arbitration than it would to just settle the $300 at stake hear.

New comment by knute in "JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser"

knute — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:14:33 +0000

It's interesting that this is your perception of "the spirit of the web" whereas other people are going to say that requiring JavaScript at all is "counter to the spirit of the web".

New comment by knute in "Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)"

knute — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:26:36 +0000

There was a time when if I went to a room in a MUD with a long text description, scrolling that text would cause the MP3 I was listening to to stutter.

Of course that was 25 years ago on a Pentium 133, I understand things are better now.

New comment by knute in "Yahoo is making a return to search"

knute — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:45:04 +0000

/*/tree is only for directory listings. File contents will be under a /blob/ path, e.g. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/AUTHORS, and should be, AFAIK, indexable.

(mandatory disclaimer: I'm a GitHub employee, not speaking on behalf of the company)