Hacker News: waitwhatwhoa

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)"

waitwhatwhoa — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:59:34 +0000

This was fixed after we reported it a few years ago while working on the paper.

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)"

waitwhatwhoa — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:59:07 +0000

Paper author here, here’s a valid link: https://www.cs.uic.edu/~polakis/papers/favicon.pdf

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates"

waitwhatwhoa — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:06:51 +0000

The STEM OPT _extension_ is an additional year on top of the one year that all graduates get. I believe the article is arguing for getting rid of that extension, not all OPT.

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "I Went to SQL Injection Court"

waitwhatwhoa — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:24:36 +0000

When can we submit witness slips? Is there a mailing list for updates we can join? Good luck!

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "VitePress 1.0"

waitwhatwhoa — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:04:21 +0000

It's been exciting to see Docusaurus [1], VitePress, and Starlight [2] all under very active development, with the first two being React- and Vue-based respectively, and Starlight being built in the Astro Islands "bring your own UI framework" model. Docusaurus ended up feeling a bit too heavyweight and opinionated for my uses, and I've been happy with Starlight so far, with the developer/author experience being very similar to what I've seen during experimentation with VitePress.

[1] https://docusaurus.io/

[2] https://starlight.astro.build/

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Cloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models"

waitwhatwhoa — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:00:21 +0000

Previously (including several comments from CF folks including cofounder eastdakota): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37674097

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)"

waitwhatwhoa — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:55:50 +0000

Passwords are sent all at once from the client to the server. This feature is for obfuscating your keystroke timing within the encrypted connection.

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules"

waitwhatwhoa — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 11:08:50 +0000

tldr: the election only happens after significant organizing and demonstrated worker interest in forming a union.

Currently it’s a two step process: get a threshold % of workers to indicate interest in unionizing, then hold an election over all workers to see if a majority want a union. The ruling makes it so that if the company interferes with the election, the NLRB deems that initial interest level sufficient for allowing a union to form and recognizing its authority to collectively bargain on behalf of all covered workers.

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Li-ion battery warehouse fire put out with Portland cement (2021)"

waitwhatwhoa — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:09:30 +0000

This was in 2021; it appears the fire was extinguished by July 11 [1], investigated by Vice later that year [2], and seems to still be being cleaned up by US EPA [3].

1. https://www.ehs.com/2021/07/morris-lithium-battery-fire-high...

2. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vj73/everyone-thought-the-...

3. https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-resumes-cleanup-hazardo...

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "File picker meme"

waitwhatwhoa — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:09:12 +0000

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=File_Picker_m... Will get you the content without the NSFW go away message.

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Signal is having technical difficulties"

waitwhatwhoa — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:08:35 +0000

I am not an accountant or tax attorney, however Signal is a 501c3 so this deduction almost certainly qualifies.

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy"

waitwhatwhoa — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:15:00 +0000

There are a few news organizations somehow battling it out to survive without advertising and I applaud them, but most comments like these simply remind me of this sentiment: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done"

waitwhatwhoa — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:27:42 +0000

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

--Antoine de Saint Exupery

Motion sensing using the doppler effect

waitwhatwhoa — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://danielrapp.github.io/doppler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13499814

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration"

waitwhatwhoa — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:04:48 +0000

At first I was worried that this is yet another Raft implementation, but it seems they're building on etcd's version [1] which should be a win for everyone trying to prove correctness for the various implementations.

1. https://github.com/docker/swarmkit/blob/a78a157ef66adf0978f0...

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "This Tech Bubble Is Bursting"

waitwhatwhoa — Mon, 02 May 2016 16:07:43 +0000

http://www.whatsthefare.com

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "How I investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C"

waitwhatwhoa — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:54:43 +0000

cool! another approach to that task: http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/imc/2015/papers/p495.pdf

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "Announcing UberPool"

waitwhatwhoa — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:45:07 +0000

Chicago's bike share is very well built out (IMO) and if you're in a neighborhood serviced by it (many low income neighborhoods just aren't deployed at all) you should be no more than two blocks from a station: http://www.divvybikes.com/stations

On the Near Impossibility of Measuring the Returns to Advertising

waitwhatwhoa — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 03:03:54 +0000

Article URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2367103

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407605

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by waitwhatwhoa in "A keyboard that rises up from flat touch screens"

waitwhatwhoa — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:23:09 +0000

I wanted one too: https://31.media.tumblr.com/9f889585e1f6611f216ddced210fb134...