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14 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2019-09-05 · latest 2025-09-12

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  1. …the definition of what is/isn't a public suffix is too fuzzy to standardize? edit: After reading https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems maybe the standards organizations just don't think it's a good idea
    comment by csb6 · 2025-09-12 · in Public Suffix List
  2. …on the 2021 discussion: > Before you begin to make use of the PSL, consider some of its problems: https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems There are another couple dozen comments on a few submissions of that:…
    comment by altairprime · 2025-09-11 · in Public Suffix List
  3. Ryan Sleevi has written about this before on Hacker News and here's his list https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems It's definitely possible that Ryan would consider using this for HN a reasonable choice, because it's mostly cosmetic, but…
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    story by aleyan · 2021-07-16 · 11 comments
  5. Before you begin to make use of the PSL, consider some of its problems: https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems FWIW, the link above successfully convinced me and a coworker not to use the PSL.
    comment by kccqzy · 2021-07-16 · in Public Suffix List
  6. …one for cookies and one for Single-Origin Policy. There's a good write up about this problem at https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems . Sometimes I wonder how the web got here with the amount of kludge that we have to carry.
  7. …is a non-scalable hack, and platforms should be reducing their reliance on it, not increase it: https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems
  8. …by something else. It probably is about time for these companies to invest in a replacement. [1]: https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems
  9. …suggests (perhaps that's putting it too mildly) that further reliance on the PSL is a bad idea: https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441942 His recommendation is to as much as possible use the…
    comment by tialaramex · 2020-09-20 · in Bitwarden leaks passwords to other subdomains
  10. …better than the PSL. Do not use the PSL for anything that is not “cookies abusing the Host header” https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems
    comment by sleevi · 2020-09-11 · in List of All Current TLDs
  11. The author responded: https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems/issues/4#issuecomment...
    comment by zenexer · 2019-09-09 · in Public Suffix List Problems
  12. …resolve the CNAME threat I’ve described. Edit 2: I’ve opened an issue asking for clarification: https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems/issues/4
    comment by zenexer · 2019-09-08 · in Public Suffix List Problems
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    story by dochtman · 2019-09-07 · 0 comments
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    story by tptacek · 2019-09-05 · 15 comments