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Same Surface, Different Weight

https://www.robpanico.com/articles/display/?entry_short=same-surface-different-weight
1•retrocog•1m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
1•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/the-first-good-raspberry-pi-laptop/
2•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/greenland-sea-levels-fall
1•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•9m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•righthand•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•13m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
2•vinhnx•14m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•19m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•28m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•29m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•30m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
5•okaywriting•36m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
2•todsacerdoti•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•40m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•41m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•42m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•42m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•43m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•47m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•47m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•48m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•48m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•57m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•57m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
2•surprisetalk•59m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
3•surprisetalk•59m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Why do websites prevent pasting via onpaste="return false;"

5•gleenn•9mo ago
Why do websites do this? Isn't it trivial for bots etc to easily side-step any protection this might give? Or is it just to make people "double-check" their inputs? I find it completely maddening because I would assume I'm way more likely to correctly input a copy-pasted e.g. routing or account number than if I have to manually enter anything. Can we just agree this is terrible UI and is probably detrimental to correct data entry? What am I missing? In frustration I even sometimes open the dev tools and remove this attribute on elements out of spite.

Comments

pwg•9mo ago
> Can we just agree this is terrible UI

It is, but they had some "checklist" that included "block paste" for reasons unknown, and so they blocked pasting.

In firefox, if you change the about:config setting "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" to false you'll be able to paste no matter whether the website operator has "block paste" on their braindead checklist or not.

ttw44•9mo ago
You're not wrong in any capacity. It's just bad and doesn't improve any "security" if that was intended.
blazeWayne•9mo ago
It is a god awful pattern! It should be gotten rid of across the web.

However, I have noticed that, on some fields, the field rejects certain input without any message if the input is not the correct intended field type. For example, copying a numeric one time password from an email which gets copied as string and pasting on a field which only accepts numbers. This might look like paste blocking but its not.

journal•9mo ago
you can do some interesting things if you record time between character inputs and analyze across many users, almost like fingerprinting the way someone would type a unique set of characters, we'd all do it differently probably and maybe that can be fingerprinted.