Does anyone know how to get past the CNN popup that only gives you the choice "Agree to collecting any and all private information"? There is no way to opt out, no way to disagree. I refuse to press it, and have not read CNN articles for the last year or so.

Replace "edition." subdomain with "lite." and you get a very lightweight website, clocking less than 100kB transferred: https://lite.cnn.com/2026/01/29/science/zapotec-tomb-mexico-...

The lite version is actually quite nice and just has news item in one big list, no fuzz, no glam, just text and some cover images.

You can read any article on CNN with Firefox reader mode. Probably works with similar features in other browsers as well.

I get a choice, at least in the EU. Admittedly you need to scroll down a bit on mobile, which is not clear at first.

Heh (in the EU at least) the div container has a `has-reject-all-button` class.

    <div id="onetrust-button-group-parent" class="ot-sdk-columns has-reject-all-button ot-sdk-two">
        <div id="onetrust-button-group">
            <button id="onetrust-accept-btn-handler">
              Accept All
            </button>
            <button id="onetrust-reject-all-handler">
              Essential Cookies Only
            </button>
            <button id="onetrust-pc-btn-handler" aria-label="Show Purposes, Opens the preference center dialog">
              Show Purposes
            </button>
        </div>
    </div>

Would be funny if the button was merely hidden outside of the EU xD

It is not present in the DOM at all in my location (US).

The "EasyList – Cookie Notices" filter list for ublock origin seems to also work well on this site.

Most of browser has reader mode, toggle it. In safari you can even set it to automatic.

NoScript fixes the broken web.

...what a bizarre use of hyphens.

This is really cool. I have a Line 6 Helix, and have wanted to explore something like this. Do you know if there is anything online about doing this?

I don’t have a specific recommendation, but a quick search found threads on Reddit and the Line 6 forums about generating patches with ChatGPT.

They sound like hobbits!

Good lord, is there a way to block someone on HN? What slop...

Hey, I didn't generate everything by AI but only to frame the words since i was busy with something else. I'll make sure from now on such mistakes will never happen again.

sincerely.

> Everyone is ok targeting te immigrant populations

No, we're not.

I think the GP means the collective "we" is OK with it, evidenced simply by the fact that it is happening.

How can you watch the protest and organization in MN and conclude people are "just letting it happen". Quite the opposite.

Sorry, bad wording. I was using the "you all" in the same context as the parent's "collective we". Yes, there's tens of thousands out in the streets protesting, but also yes there's tens of millions who aren't.

I think it's millions, not tens of thousands protesting.

I hate that the online world is so polluted with America Bad that we cannot even have a good discussion. There is literally nothing American citizens could be doing right now that would meet with approval from outsiders.

Hello. I posted the above comments before I'd read asa400's amazing insight right at the top of this discussion, that post has given me the perspective I was clearly missing when I posted these. I was never coming from an "America Bad" position, but I was definitely failing to appreciate the nuances of protest in such a heavily armed country.

A lot of the world would not tolerate the amount of illegals that the US has within its borders.

You are getting downvoted, but this is a fair point. The only other country with a higher estimate for illegal immigrant population is Russia. The next closest Western European country is France, with barely over half the rate of the US. [0]

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/percentag...

In the poorer parts of the world, people absolutely detest illegal immigrants (or basically most working migrants as well) because they are taking jobs from the locals. They hate refugees because there's not enough resources to go around to use in feeding and housing them.

Welcoming people in because "no-one wants to do those jobs" is very much a luxury belief of the well off.

I think the number of people who welcome immigrants for this reason is actually quite small, and is mostly business owners. And to be fair, they are not entirely wrong -- all evidence we have suggests that many of the jobs are so hard that getting citizens to do them would require bumping the wage 3, 4, 5 times, and even then it is a tough sell.

What I think has happened culturally is that Americans see us as the shining beacon on the hill, where everyone wants to be, and so we feel sympathetic to those who will do whatever it takes to come here. There are lots of cultural references historically that reinforce this mythology. Call it American Exceptionalism or whatever, but the mythology is real.

Between our own loss in confidence and the onslaught of 'America Bad' inundating the online dialogue, this mythology is dying in a hurry. Makes me a little sad, honestly, because I am of the opinion that a nation benefits from a strong mythology. Sometimes that is served by religion, but in the US it has for a long time been 'Land of Opportunity' and associated beliefs. I dare anyone to go to the US Capitol tour and watch that 15 minute intro video about the founding of the country and not come away with a tear in their eye. It's quite moving, even if it is largely a fabrication.

It's always the land of opportunity for those who want to come in and displace the existing inhabitants. Fun when you're the one displacing until you are on the other side.

Yes, thank you.

I meant "we" in the sense that our country has yet to put an end to it and there is still a majority of people either actively in support of ICE or remaining silent.

We're still fixing the problems from Reagan. The USA and the world will be feeling the aftershocks 100 years from now.

And the planet is still feeling the after affects of British colonialism. That's how the future works, it's affected by the past.

Agreed, there's nothing like watching someone hike the Grand Canyon or driving through Yellowstone on Youtube.

Maybe VR?

Sorry for the knee jerk unfunny snark. Just a little annoyed reading complaints from people who can't get their vacation in when pretty much my entire neighborhoood is in panick mode because they see probability of impending doom rising.

Like bog shoes?

f is functional. MRIs are basically huge magnets used for imaging. When you apply a strong magnetic field, different tissue types and densities will react differently, and the MRI is basically measuring how those tissues react to the magnet. It is very good for imaging soft tissues, but not so much bone. Someone figured out that you can measure blood flow using the MRI, because blood cells react in a magnetic field, then "relax" at a known rate. Since we can measure blood flow, that is correlated with increased brain activity, i.e. since more neurons are firing, they require more energy, and therefore more blood. So, fMRI is using blood flow as a proxy for brain activity.

Fmri doesn’t measure blood flow, it measures the oxygen level in the blood. Hemoglobin molecules change shape when they carry oxygen and the different shapes react differently to magnets, which is a real stroke of luck

it doesn't measure the oxygen level directly either. the bold signal is correlated to dephasing induced by the oxy/deoxy hg ratio that isn't even necessarially localized to the voxel (flow or long range magnetic susceptibility perturbations from nearby accumulated deoxyhg (veins)).

Yep, this is why it's also called BOLD imaging, for blood-oxygenation-level-dependent fMRI. I did my PhD is BME and brain-computer interfaces, but it has been a while since I worked in the field.