Hacker News: manwithaplan

New comment by manwithaplan in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

manwithaplan — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:49:44 +0000

It works perfectly fine under Termux, too.

New comment by manwithaplan in "Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks"

manwithaplan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:05:39 +0000

I can recommend https://github.com/VREMSoftwareDevelopment/WiFiAnalyzer for a pretty comprehensive Wi-Fi analysis.

New comment by manwithaplan in "3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf]"

manwithaplan — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:53:39 +0000

It should fit on an DMF MF-2HD (standard double-sided, high density, 90 millimeters microfloppy formatted in Distribution Media Format, holding 1'720'320 bytes).

New comment by manwithaplan in "Italian hotels breached en masse since June, government confirms"

manwithaplan — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:38:56 +0000

Also: https://www.unionesarda.it/en/italy/thousands-of-hotel-recor...

Italian hotels breached en masse since June, government confirms

manwithaplan — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:38:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/italian_hotels_breached_en_masse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907001

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by manwithaplan in "Reverse engineering Claude Code"

manwithaplan — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:29:11 +0000

XKCD 416: Zealous Autoconfig https://xkcd.com/416/

New comment by manwithaplan in "How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet"

manwithaplan — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:50:22 +0000

So she became the first documented spammer.

New comment by manwithaplan in "How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)"

manwithaplan — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:15:17 +0000

I just loved Nerdwriter1ʼs short analysis of that poem: https://youtu.be/55kqNg88JqI

New comment by manwithaplan in "Take the pedals off the bike"

manwithaplan — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:23:59 +0000

I vaguely remember my training wheels were set a bit higher and not touching the ground unless I was leaning a lot. So this setup would aid training to ride properly.

New comment by manwithaplan in "Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine"

manwithaplan — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 19:04:11 +0000

And a Dillo developer pours un café con caña.

New comment by manwithaplan in "20 years later, the Y2K bug seems like a joke–because some took it seriously (2019)"

manwithaplan — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:42:08 +0000

Many Y2K “solutions” just borrowed 20 years, and a few of those systems didnʼt actually invest that time in a fix before the 1st of January 2020:

  One solution involved a technique called “windowing” — in which two-digit years are assigned to either one century or another based on one hard-coded “pivot year” determining where they belong. Even back in 1999, HPCWire was describing it as “highly controversial,” citing one expert who said computers using the technique were “little ticking time bombs waiting to go off.”

https://thenewstack.io/how-the-y2k-bug-returned-on-jan-1-202...

New comment by manwithaplan in "NIF successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times"

manwithaplan — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:55:12 +0000

The text-only version: https://lite.cnn.com/2023/12/20/climate/nuclear-fusion-energ...

New comment by manwithaplan in "Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT"

manwithaplan — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:25:11 +0000

The system confabulated the www subdomain of the “URL provided in the text”, right?

New comment by manwithaplan in "Special-Use Domain Names"

manwithaplan — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:50:26 +0000

Also, test IDN top-level domains: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

New comment by manwithaplan in "Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters"

manwithaplan — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:24:58 +0000

> the temperature of the Danube, whose water is used to cool the plant, reached 29.72 degrees Celsius

Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters

manwithaplan — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:24:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungary-nuclear-plant-cuts-output-because-warm-danube-waters-2023-07-14/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36723665

Points: 54

# Comments: 78

New comment by manwithaplan in ".ga domain names soon to return to Gabonese management (from Freenom) [pdf]"

manwithaplan — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:28:17 +0000

> This server could not prove that it is aninf.ga; its security certificate is from aazerp.ga. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.

Sign of competence by the new management organisation.

New comment by manwithaplan in "Dune: Part Two – Official Trailer [video]"

manwithaplan — Wed, 03 May 2023 16:59:57 +0000

I stand corected.

New comment by manwithaplan in "Dune: Part Two – Official Trailer [video]"

manwithaplan — Wed, 03 May 2023 16:26:18 +0000

The post links to a teaser trailer, instead of the full trailer, e.g. https://youtu.be/wmANVhyPyE4

New comment by manwithaplan in "What does "Copy clean link" mean?"

manwithaplan — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:23:17 +0000

> It's so difficult to scroll to the right and delete all the query parameters.

A lot of times, all that's needed is to insert a # character at the right place in the URL, then load that.