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rbinv 2024-02-08 12:37:21 | [–] update item (on: Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced )

Try ?authuser=2 instead of /u/2, that works with some Google products where /u/x doesn't.

edit: doesn't seem to work, it just redirects to /u/2 anyway

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NVRM | karma 6 | avg karma 0.06 | 2018-04-05 12:27:15+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Ask HN: In 2018, should we use SnakeCase or CamelCase for JSON? )

Use unicodes instead! https://codepen.io/Nico_KraZhtest/pen/mEjBdj

iLoch | karma 1652 | avg karma 2.5 | 2016-02-07 20:27:29 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: LennyFaces.net – Cheatsheets for lenny faces )

I set up \/ to be ¯\_(?)_/¯ on my iPhone and laptop via a dictionary replacement. Non technical and persists across multiple devices.

biftek | karma 441 | avg karma 2.94 | 2012-06-22 03:28:19+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack )

You can also just use Unicode values. See the icons on the blog page.

So something like "ģ" or "\0123" will also work.

tyingq | karma 59102 | avg karma 3.47 | 2021-06-24 17:54:15+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Bash PS1 Generator )

Maybe >(Unicode 0xFF1/＞) would be a good substitute?

Side by side: >>

cogburnd02 | karma 250 | avg karma 1.13 | 2020-02-23 23:24:16+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Routed Gothic Font )

Now it needs U+0CA0....

https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0ca0/index.htm

richthegeek | karma 947 | avg karma 4.06 | 2018-12-10 11:19:31+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Open Location Code )

https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...

One of the design decisions was to avoid ambiguous characters, so that cuts out at least 9 (I1L 0OB8).

richardfey | karma 895 | avg karma 2.15 | 2022-02-09 02:24:11 | [–] similar comments (on: An Ancient Geometry Problem Falls to New Mathematical Techniques )

That should be 187: https://theasciicode.com.ar/extended-ascii-code/box-drawing-...

jozan | karma 121 | avg karma 3.36 | 2015-08-14 13:23:27 | [–] similar comments (on: Shoco: a fast compressor for short strings )

In default it doesn't work well with non-ASCII characters.

https://ed-von-schleck.github.io/shoco/#how-it-works

E6300 | karma 213 | avg karma 1.08 | 2017-04-17 18:19:18+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Phishing with Unicode Domains )

http://blog.unicode.org/2014/09/updated-unicode-security-spe...

sidpatil | karma 1620 | avg karma 2.29 | 2020-10-30 14:01:59+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 )

I'm disappointed we didn't use ASCII-separated values.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474600

bmn__ | karma 1975 | avg karma 1.57 | 2020-08-15 16:55:45+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Unicode in five minutes (2013) )

https://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#5

danilocesar | karma 559 | avg karma 3.68 | 2018-04-04 13:52:04 | [–] similar comments (on: Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text )

The so-called-better-way of doing this using Unicode substitution can be found at http://smartdata.cs.unibo.it/watermark/

sheraz | karma 1309 | avg karma 1.84 | 2015-10-23 10:44:10+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy )

wouldn't you end up with the 'xn--' ascii expansion in the url window?

sirseal | karma 98 | avg karma 2.18 | 2015-03-18 07:40:39 | [–] similar comments (on: I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode )

Let's use UTF-16: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16. Problem solved.

JamesAdir | karma 1050 | avg karma 3.18 | 2023-04-16 12:04:16 | [–] similar comments (on: Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive )

thanks, tried it, but it has a problem with Unicode URL's unless there is some setting I'm missing.

gotodengo | karma 175 | avg karma 5.65 | 2018-08-21 00:12:35 | [–] similar comments (on: Idempotence: What is it and why should I care? )

Reminds me of the Spotify unicode username issue[1]. Where a function assumed to be idempotent (think tolower(username)) actually wasn't with certain unicode inputs. Allowing account takeovers.

[1] https://labs.spotify.com/2013/06/18/creative-usernames/

bombcar | karma 42761 | avg karma 2.58 | 2021-03-06 08:39:20 | [–] similar comments (on: Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name )

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

Long story short use a text field that takes UTF-8.

Dylan16807 | karma 31639 | avg karma 1.39 | 2023-07-25 21:35:36 | [–] similar comments (on: Unicode is harder than you think )

https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/

subway | karma 3614 | avg karma 4.42 | 2012-12-13 15:35:49+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Unvalidated Redirect in Google (or How Google Sent Me To Bing) )

You could, of course, also use the hex representation of the ascii url to obscure it: http://www.google.com/finance/url?sa=D&q=%68%74%74%70%3a...

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