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New comment by n4bz0r in "US boy names that became girl names and vice versa"

n4bz0r — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:56:04 +0000

The '-sha' suffix is often used in short/informal versions of Russian names which might contribute to a lot of confusion since many people use the informal version of their name as formal overseas.

With the formal versions, the vowel rule is a good bet, but a lot of the informal versions for both male and female names end in 'sha' (and thus 'a').

Here's a few examples:

- Natalia: Natasha (Female)

- Aleksandr, Aleksandra: Sasha (Male/Female)

- Evgenii, Evgenia: Zhenya (Male/Female)

- Aleksei: Lyosha (Male)

- Daria: Dasha (Female)

- Oksana (Female)

- Nikita (Male)

- Yurii: Yura (Male)

- Pavel: Pasha (Male)

Keeping it terse here, the list goes on and on as you can come up with an 'a'-endng informal version of almost every male name.

New comment by n4bz0r in "Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry"

n4bz0r — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:38:08 +0000

As the others have said, I don't think you can unknowingly break embargo. If anything, I'm grateful you posted - the timing was right for me:

- I've been able to notify the clients that we are going to have to take urgent action;

- Had some time to figure out what actually happened;

- Set up monitoring to know when the fix is out;

- Managed to compile the new binaries the moment they became available.

New comment by n4bz0r in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

n4bz0r — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:00:47 +0000

If the client cares for your craftsmanship.

New comment by n4bz0r in "Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky"

n4bz0r — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:19:17 +0000

We're about to land in kaka territory with this one.

New comment by n4bz0r in "Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit"

n4bz0r — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:45:07 +0000

Thanks for sharing the experience.

> As in the others that I _won't_ buy (which is what I meant)?

Correct. Sorry, worded the question a bit too ambiguously :)

What kind of trouble did you have with ASUS and D-Link? Security or the lack of configuration options? Haven't bought them in a while, but I remember them being somewhat decent.

I'm quite frequently in the market for a simple home router/AP for friends and family, and they'd rather have something simpler and cheaper, so that rules out Mikrotik (which I would normally go for). Would love to hear some stories about the issues you've had with all kinds of off the shelf stuff if you have the time.

New comment by n4bz0r in "Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit"

n4bz0r — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:01:35 +0000

Oh, I rather meant the brands to avoid. But it's still interesting to discover new ones, thanks.

New comment by n4bz0r in "Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit"

n4bz0r — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:18:57 +0000

> I'll never buy TP-Link (amongst others)

Been wondering recently what the others might be. Can you give a few examples among popular brands?

New comment by n4bz0r in "uBlock Origin Lite is back on Firefox add-ons"

n4bz0r — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:36:12 +0000

Are there any downsides to that approach? No custom CSS, for instance?

New comment by n4bz0r in "The new Firefox design is here"

n4bz0r — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:15:36 +0000

The gradient is part of the theme. Updated the post with how to roll back the UI changes for now. After rolling back, select an old theme.

New comment by n4bz0r in "The new Firefox design is here"

n4bz0r — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:08:35 +0000

The UI was tidy and nearly perfect, now it's all over the place: weird paddings, different border radiuses even within a single element, clashing background colors, and boy, do I love rainbow gradients everywhere.

Update: for those unhappy with the changes, you can roll them back for now:

  about:config -> browser.nova.enabled -> false

New comment by n4bz0r in "Two Git ignore files nobody told me about"

n4bz0r — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:14:14 +0000

I absolutely despise when people commit their personal ignore patterns. My opinion is that the code in the repository shouldn't know anything about personal environments. The exception is when the entire team benefits from having their common ignore patterns in the repo - in this scenario, the environment details are no longer personal and it doesn't make much sense to not commit them. In any other situation, people are perfectly capable of ignoring their crap on their own and shouldn't pollute the repo. Glad .git/info/exclude is getting more exposure.

New comment by n4bz0r in "Maybe you should learn something"

n4bz0r — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:38:38 +0000

> Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never <...> be tortured by

Right.

A critical 9.8 CVSS (ZDI-CAN-30207) hits Telegram

n4bz0r — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:49:24 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/the_yellow_fall/status/2037464498097803344

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547358

Points: 7

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New comment by n4bz0r in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

n4bz0r — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:25:50 +0000

Poof!

New comment by n4bz0r in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

n4bz0r — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:18:42 +0000

Seems like a fitting area for government regulation and certification. But in order for a government to even begin to consider the lack of security in IoT a problem, the adoption must ubiquitous. I.e. the devices (or the number of thereof) should pose enough a threat to public infrastructure (think botnets) to be subjected to regulation. Is there such an incentive in any country at the moment?

New comment by n4bz0r in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

n4bz0r — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:09:39 +0000

I might be wrong, but I don't think people really care about the addictiveness in the first place. As I see it, the shorts were irritating to see, mainly because they were heavily out of tune with the rest of recommendations. But they seem to have tuned them to be more in line with the rest of the videos. Being not that different from the rest of the videos one gets recommended, there is not much point in hiding them? I'm not exactly protecting shorts here. My point is, you can, of course, cut some of the videos from the feed, but the rest would still be affected by the same algorithm. You still don't get to filter anything, really. So what's the point?

If addictiveness really is that much of a factor, I rest my case.

New comment by n4bz0r in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

n4bz0r — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:50:04 +0000

On the main page, shorts, as all the other videos, are served by the recommendation algorithm which should filter out general audience crap you'd see if you're not logged in or have view history disabled. You'd normally see the same stuff you're subscribed to there, plus a few random videos of cats. Maybe a wamen butt occasionally. Might as well hide the main page entirely if you're not that easily entertained. To be quite frank, the main page is such an echo chamber lately that I almost got myself unhooked from procrastinating on YouTube.

On the search page, shorts are mostly a mixed bag, but you do occasionally get useful results.

So what does this solve? Seems like a form of protest nobody important (those in power) cares about.

Another thing is, I have, to my own surprise, discovered a few decent channels that I like, that post their videos in form of shorts exclusively. That's a somewhat new trend and mostly relevant to humor-related or music channels, though.

Almost forgot to mention. YouTube recently added the scroll bar to the shorts so they aren't all that different from the other videos now.

New comment by n4bz0r in "7zip.com Is Serving Malware"

n4bz0r — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:15:18 +0000

Not exactly news, wiki's been used for misinformation quite extensively from what I recall. You can't always be 100% sure with any online source of information, but at least you know there is an extensive community that'll notice if something's fishy rather sooner than later.

New comment by n4bz0r in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

n4bz0r — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:15:51 +0000

Went right over my head :)

New comment by n4bz0r in "7zip.com Is Serving Malware"

n4bz0r — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:13:28 +0000

Funny thing that it's exactly the same for Russian citizens - they'd rather use US government malware. Same goes for mail providers.