Hacker News: rawling

New comment by rawling in "US air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy disks"

rawling — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:11:20 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50388001

New comment by rawling in "Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign"

rawling — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:30:14 +0000

> We take abuse reports very seriously. To report a site, email the offending URL to abuse@nip.io. We respond to all abuse reports within 24 hours

They seem to invite it

New comment by rawling in "Man Wins First-of-Its-Kind Religious Exemption from Mandatory AI Use at Work"

rawling — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:05:47 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273396

New comment by rawling in "If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why"

rawling — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:05:30 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218633

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50231189

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218950

New comment by rawling in "Samsung TV on-device AI listening, using soundbar's mic if the TV has none"

rawling — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:42:52 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218633

New comment by rawling in "iPod 25th Anniversary: Apple Music (Interactive)"

rawling — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:04:45 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207910

New comment by rawling in "What's on That Access Port?"

rawling — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:28:12 +0000

Wow this has been submitted a lot

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=What%27s%20on%20That%20Access%...

New comment by rawling in "Inline rendering with document.currentScript"

rawling — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:56:33 +0000

For context, this is the first link from the top comment of the #2 post on the front page at time of writing, suggesting an alternative to XSLT which is being deprecated from Chrome and Edge.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134617

New comment by rawling in "Unparliamentary Language"

rawling — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:51:43 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073660

New comment by rawling in "UK Reform social media engagement drop after strikes on Russia data centres"

rawling — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:45:50 +0000

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko

https://metro.co.uk/2026/10/12/russian-bots-dropped-off-ukra...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/yankex-russia-ukraine-bots-9.7...

https://mashable.com/tech/ukraine-strikes-yandex-data-center...

New comment by rawling in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

rawling — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:18:43 +0000

> “When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became easier to [use] social media platforms. People noticed there was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations on social media. Because there were fewer bots, it’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from.” | Volodomyr Zelenksy

So he's reporting on what people on social media are saying... which is just continuing the initial misinterpretation of what Cloudflare meant by "Russian bots".

New comment by rawling in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

rawling — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:52:45 +0000

Is Tom's Hardware removing it from their article not suggestive to you that maybe it was wrong?

New comment by rawling in "Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts"

rawling — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:29:49 +0000

That was the article title originally, the site must've changed it. Still pushing that "bot traffic" means "social media bots" though.

New comment by rawling in "Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts"

rawling — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:49:42 +0000

That in turn comes from

> Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks

Cloudflare doesn't track twitter posts, does it? But requests to sites on its network. The kind of thing Yandex's search crawlers would be hitting.

Also note (I think) the TH article also initially claimed this was talking about bot posts on social media, but now doesn't?

New comment by rawling in "Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts"

rawling — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:38:40 +0000

Misleading headline?

The quoted tweet says that 21-29% of traffic on twitter is bots.

It doesn't say anything about 29% of traffic having actually measurably stopped, does it?

Elsewhere on HN people are pointing out that the "bot traffic" coming from yandex that has stopped is the web scraper bots updating their search engine.

New comment by rawling in "Knuth reward check"

rawling — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:24:10 +0000

Some of the parameters are bools. So somewhere between 2^62 and your figure...

New comment by rawling in "DIY conveyor belt keyboard from Google Japan"

rawling — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:10:38 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956574

New comment by rawling in "Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal"

rawling — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:51:36 +0000

> Today, Japan is considered to be a latent or threshold nuclear state, capable of developing weapons in a short timespan. It is unique among non-nuclear weapons states in that it possesses a full nuclear fuel cycle and plutonium stockpile, as part of its civilian nuclear energy industry, and advanced developments in the industries necessary to make nuclear weapons.

New comment by rawling in "Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'""

rawling — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:23:17 +0000

In reply to

> future zoned datetime carry outright uncertainty as to their actual location on the timeline (as the zone’s offset can be updated at any point and any number of times until the event has elapsed)

I wondered if it would be worth applying a (optional?) version to a timezone when stored, so you could distinguish between "whenever it is this time in Perth" vs "when I currently think this time will be in Perth, though if Perth changes its mind on how it offsets time, I want to keep what time I currently think that will be".

But you're right, that doesn't really add anything over storing it as UTC.

New comment by rawling in "Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”"

rawling — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:39:58 +0000

Has anyone proposed versioning timezones? Or is this such an edge case it would be overkill? (Either specify your future instant in UTC if you mean to stick to that, or specify it in a timezone and accept that it could change before it happens, or if you need something else get it in a contract and don't trust the computer!)