Hacker News: zczc

Small webshops struggling with new EU rules around packaging waste

zczc — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:39:43 +0000

Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/14/small-webshops-struggling-new-eu-rules-around-packaging-waste

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350500

Points: 2

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China-linked hackers hit Taiwan in unprecedented 'autonomous' AI cyber attack

zczc — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7d2ab3e0-9085-48f6-b38a-d90260d58795

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274007

Points: 4

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CaptiveCrunch: Midnight Blizzard targets travelers worldwide for malware

zczc — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:10:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/07/31/captivecrunch-midnight-blizzard-targets-travelers-worldwide-for-malware-delivery-and-credential-theft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184062

Points: 3

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U.S. Treasury sanctions on a VPN service knocked out Telegram's shortlink domain

zczc — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:48:18 +0000

Article URL: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/07/14/u-s-treasury-sanctions-on-a-vpn-service-knocked-out-telegram-s-short-link-domain-worldwide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911373

Points: 8

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New comment by zczc in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

zczc — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:07:38 +0000

https://t.me/ is back online today. No official explanation yet

New comment by zczc in "Backtrack-Free Cursive"

zczc — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:28:18 +0000

Vertical strokes first, and then bridge on top

New comment by zczc in "Backtrack-Free Cursive"

zczc — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:34:41 +0000

In school-taught cursive, the uppercase A is written with a single stroke, but the upper element in Б, Г, Т and others need a separate stroke. The full alphabet sheet: https://upload-995750d0fd20690d889c7a976af524b6.hb.bizmrg.co...

New comment by zczc in "OpenPrinter"

zczc — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:51:18 +0000

From the specs:

  Compatible cartridges  
  HP 63 and HP 63 XL (US)
  HP 302 and HP 302 XL (Europe)
  HP 803 and HP 803 XL (Asia)

So they just use HP inkjet technology. That makes it less open-source, but even "open source" parts are going to be under non-commercial license (CC BY-NC-SA) anyway.

How to turn compute into a financial asset

zczc — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:53:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/22/how-to-turn-compute-into-a-financial-asset

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641725

Points: 3

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Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team has been disbanded, engineers laid off

zczc — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:47:44 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221099

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

New comment by zczc in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

zczc — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:48:26 +0000

They have the same on cheaper (but still "Special"/"Premium") non-lacquer S100 version: https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/product.S100/

The 'manosphere' has already infiltrated the workplace. We're only just noticing

zczc — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:24:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91523017/the-manosphere-has-already-infiltrated-the-workplace-were-only-just-noticing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986206

Points: 10

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New comment by zczc in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

zczc — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:15:08 +0000

They definitely knew, Soviet books on industrial design and architecture explicitly mention Birren [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q="биррен"+зеленый&udm=36&tbs=... (search for Russian for "Birren"+green in 20th century books)

New comment by zczc in "Iran acquired facial recognition technology through Russian company"

zczc — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:18:23 +0000

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/Q32eF

Iran acquired facial recognition technology through Russian company

zczc — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:12:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/investigations/article/2026/03/04/how-iran-secretly-acquired-facial-recognition-technology-through-a-russian-company_6751079_231.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245902

Points: 5

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New comment by zczc in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

zczc — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:14:02 +0000

Yes, he was an idiot, but that doesn't contradict that he was smart. In his own words, from The Dilbert Principle book:

"People are idiots.

Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. That's the central premise of this scholarly work. I proudly include myself in the idiot category. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time."

New comment by zczc in "[dead]"

zczc — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:49:44 +0000

"Starting December 29, 2025, the ability to create new posts, comments, and other content will be available to users who make a more significant contribution to the platform"

Google translate link: https://1-ru--news-livejournal-com.translate.goog/80899.html...

New comment by zczc in "The Checkerboard"

zczc — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:32:51 +0000

The initial idea was to first sell 50% of the land and then sell the other 50%. [1] Thanks to corner crossing, the checkerboard pattern made sure that owners of the first batch wouldn't be cut off from their access by buyers of the second batch.

[1] From TFA: "This checkerboard pattern allowed the government to keep all the undeveloped sections in between and wait for them to go up in value before turning around and selling them to developers".

New comment by zczc in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

zczc — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 08:43:09 +0000

Probably they meant this: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-can-we-break-our-addict...

ESETResearch has discovered the first known AI-powered ransomware, "PromptLock"

zczc — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:49:09 +0000

Article URL: https://infosec.exchange/@ESETresearch/115095803130379945

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038937

Points: 2

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