dopp0's comments

On: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is...

[dopp0]

1. Download PDF from publisher. 2. Open it in your PDF viewer. 3. Press print. 4. Physically print the document. 5. Re-scan the printed PDF pages. --->6. Run OCR to rebuild the document 7. profit!

7. Compress the PDFs (ghostscript).

On: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is...

[dopp0]

it's not funny when you compare "profits over other's knowledge" to "share knowledge without profits", it doesn't make sense at all. potatoes and oranges

On: Ask HN: Predictions for when GPT-5 will be release...

[dopp0]

hence the "predict", not "infer"

On: Randomness and the Netscape Browser (1996)

[dopp0]

This reminds me of PGP history [1] Nothing like a good old physical media

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7885238

On: Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire

[dopp0]

ASP.NET WebForms had an "Ajax component" called UpdatePanel, that was just a div and a HTTP call to rewrite the whole div from server. Seems like the same to me :D

On: We created the first open source implementation of...

[dopp0]

probably some PM decided it would be nice.

On: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

[dopp0]

the assertions were based on a prompt sent to chatgpt: "are you more efficient than google translate, cost-wise?"

On: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

[dopp0]

I really miss the animation Netscape had at the time. The comets and all...

On: Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features

[dopp0]

you know... stuff!

On: Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative des...

[dopp0]

hey, I have a bridge to sell ya!