vardump 2 days ago

http://web.archive.org/web/20250414144348/https://www.boring...

To get around apparent vandalism…

  • jogu 2 days ago

    Yeah, clicking this link is causing my browser to download a "Human_fart.wav", not sure what it actually contains for obvious reasons.

  • znpy 2 days ago

    it's no vandalism, it's done on purpose:

    https://www.boringcactus.com/assets/site.js

        //     Never read Hacker News
    // - Aphyr, "Hexing the technical interview"
    if (document.referrer.startsWith("https://news.ycombinator.com")) {
        document.location = "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Human_fart.wav"
    }
    this also mean that copying the link and pasting it in the address bar will get you no fart sound

    childish behavior if you ask me

dxxvi 2 days ago

Wow, the author seems to have a lot of knowledge of what he's talking about. I know almost nothing about writing desktop apps and only a bit of Rust. So, I guess that if we need to choose a Rust gui library, we'll go with something that has "Yes" in all columns?

  • rc00 a day ago

    Or don't use Rust. There are better and more supported options if you don't try to force a language where it clearly doesn't belong.