What's the use case of a stream cipher when AES can be turned into a stream with a little XOR-ing?

What's the use case of a block cipher when you can encrypt arbitrary-sized blocks with a stream cipher construction?

Let's stop calling it "JavaScript" entirely. "JS" is right there.

Exactly. When was the last time you heard HTML called "HyperText Markup Language"? When was the last time you heard CSS called "Cascading Style Sheets"? We should stop saying "JavaScript" and fully switch to JS.

YavaScript

I once (legally) bought a second hand laptop with a big anti-theft sticker on it. The sticker warned that removing it would leave a big "STOLEN!" mark, which it did. I covered it up with a new sticker.

I was once on a bus and I could hear some teenagers talking. One asked a girl for her phone number and she told him a number starting with 07709, the UK's "555". I only knew that because a Doctor Who episode had recently used the same prefix.

If I end up going to London myself, my intention was to scan Wilf's column of those eight issues for archive-org. Two other HN users have offered to go look for me and I can't really ask them to do extra work to do if they're already doing me a favour.

Thanks very much. That’s a generous offer. If you do find time to check, I’d be grateful. I’ve narrowed it down to eight issues that aren’t in the archive.org scans. My submission was mentioned near the end of Wilf’s column, just before the usual sign-off and the postal address in Bath.

(You might meet PaulRobinson while you're there, looking for the same issues!)

Thanks again for even considering it. Much appreciated! My email address is my HN username at gmail.

Hi billpg - did you get these in the end? I'll make time for this if not.

Hello there! I had sent this HN submission in a few weeks ago and I thought it had disappeared off the "new" page with only one comment. I came back on today and happened to notice some activity and HN had reposted my piece five days ago.

I have since contacted the British Library and they have the eight issues I was looking for, but I live way up north and it would take a little planning and spending whole day to get there, but if you'd be willing to do that, yes please. I've narrowed it down to these eight which are in the right timeframe and are missing from the archive.org collection. I do remember my mention was right at the end of that month's column, right before the usual sign-off and the address in Bath to send in contributions.

My email address is my HN username at gmail.

I have emailed you, so if you haven't seen that, check your junk folder.

Thank you. I've written back.

(Short version of email: Yes please!)

PS. Link to the scans: https://archive.org/details/wpw-1991-1992-1993/WPW-1991-01/

Unfortunately those don't contain the specific issues the OP mentioned.

You're replying to OP. :)

The link is in reference to "I found scans of his section on archive.org, including the issue where he announces the contest, but I couldn't find my particular contribution".

I've always wondered why HN doesn't have an OP indicator. A blue name ( similar to the green name for new accounts ) or an asterisk, just something subtle, would do.

Perhaps they don't want to mark out the OP as "special" to the resulting conversation, but it would help make the situation here clearer.

A good compromise would be only marking their top-level comments. And/or doing this only for Show/Ask/Tell threads.

I'm sending this thread to the admins as a feature request.

Tampermonkey to the rescue!

Quick slaptogether. I'm decidedly mediocre at web so if anyone has improvements, please post them :)

  // ==UserScript==
  // @name         HN OP highlight
  // @version      0.1
  // @description  Find OP username and change username color to blue
  // @match        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=*
  // @grant        none
  // @run-at       document-end
  // ==/UserScript==
  
  (function() {
    'use strict';

    // get OP 'userid' from class 'hnuser' in post subtext
    const opUsername = document.querySelector('span.subline a.hnuser')?.getAttribute('href');

    // Match other instances of same 'userid' in 'hnuser' class elsewhere in page
    if (opUsername) {
        const opHighlight = document.createElement('style');
        opHighlight.textContent = `
            /* Post header username */
            span.subline a.hnuser[href="${opUsername}"],
            /* Comment header username */
            span.comhead a.hnuser[href="${opUsername}"] {
                color: #2749F5 !important;
            }
        `;
        document.head.appendChild(opHighlight);
    }
  })();

I wonder if the language could support a tagged pointer type, where you ask the compiler for n extra bits along with the pointer. If the pointer's internal structure has space for those bits, it uses them, otherwise the compiler allocates space for the pointer and the tag as a larger structure.

I they had stuck with LiveScript, we'd be using LSON ("Ell-Son") as a data format.

Another bullet dodged, since saying Ellison 3 times in a row would cause a gaggle of lawyers to appear in the room