• Oarch 13 hours ago

    Warning for others, this website opened a new tab, forwarded to Booking.com and hijacked my back button.

    • caesil 12 hours ago
      • Larrikin 6 hours ago

        Are you using anything to help prevent this kind of abuse like using Firefox, AdNauseum, or AdGuard? I wasn't able to reproduce this

        • antonvs 12 hours ago

          That's wild. I vaguely thought sfgate was a reasonably reputable site.

          • lurk2 11 hours ago

            A ton of news websites do this now, navigating to a “Before you go…” page when you hit the back button. I’ve always suspected this kind of behavior has a lot to do with why people don’t read articles anymore. You know what you’re getting when you open a comment section on Reddit, Hacker News, or Twitter. The majority of other websites are going to be borderline impossible to view on mobile.

            • rudasn 11 hours ago

              Chrome with JS disabled works good enough for me on mobile. It's also easy to whitelist specific sites. But mostly, if I get a blank page I just go back.

              • lysace 10 hours ago

                I just use Brave and its builtin ad blocking on iOS. This is the killer app of these days.

                Very few sites really work with js disabled.

          • aspenmayer 11 hours ago

            That is extremely interesting. Booking.com is driving a lot of traffic, as I have outlined previously on HN:

            https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481590

          • mallomarmeasle 11 hours ago

            Trying to wrap my head around the term "cultural practitioner", even after looking it up. Don't we all transmit our culture?

          • BSOhealth 7 hours ago

            What a terrible website

            • onecommentman 5 hours ago

              “Hawaiian petroglyphs dating back at least a half-millennium”

              Which means 500 years ago. You can buy entire books published that long ago, if you have a spare thousand or two USD. Pushing the antiquity of the finding by referring to “millennium” seems very American.

              • michaelsbradley 8 hours ago

                Depending on the age of the petroglyphs, would be directly or indirectly related to:

                Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity (2003)

                https://archive.org/details/anthony-peratt-characteristics-f...

                Characteristics For The Occurrence Of A High Current Z Pinch Aurora As Recorded In Antiquity Part II: Directionality And Source (2007)

                https://archive.org/details/characteristics-for-the-occurren...

                • sema4hacker 11 hours ago

                  "Uncovered" should be "once again uncovered".

                  • rendall 9 hours ago

                    Why?

                  • akshay_trikha 12 hours ago

                    > The shoreline is publicly accessible, but parking at the Army’s recreation center requires military ID.

                    There's something poetically sad about this.

                    • wildzzz 11 hours ago

                      It's basically a small Army base adjacent to most of the beach so that's why you can't park there. There's some public parking at the public access area at the south end. If you owned a house that was up against a private beach, I doubt you'd let people park in your driveway or cut through your yard to access it.

                      • heavyset_go 10 hours ago

                        > If you owned a house that was up against a private beach, I doubt you'd let people park in your driveway or cut through your yard to access it.

                        There's a concept in common law called the public trust doctrine[1] that we inherited from our British legal lineage that many states incorporate into their handling of beaches.

                        For example, some states hold all beaches in public trusts, and everyone has the right to use them. There being no such thing as "private beaches", although riparian rights can be rented, also means that the public has a right to access those beaches even if private property blocks access.

                        In those cases, the public has both perpendicular and lateral beach access rights, the former meaning you can legally cut across private property to access beaches, the latter meaning that you can walk up and down beaches to access other beaches.

                        That's to say your feelings about people crossing private property don't really matter when it comes legal beach access, Hawaii holds all waters and beaches in public trusts via public trust doctrine that courts have held up for literally centuries.

                        [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_trust_doctrine

                      • Telemakhos 11 hours ago

                        I've have never before heard a parking situation described in poetic terms. I might go take a long walk on a beach to ponder that.

                        • adastra22 11 hours ago

                          "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

                        • labster 11 hours ago

                          Were used to it in Malibu. The publicly owned shoreline can be reached through the legally mandated passageways, if you can make it through the locked gates and avoid being seen by security.

                          • natebc 11 hours ago

                            It's the same in ... well at least some of the continental states. Georgia for sure has mandated public access (mostly) and the beaches cannot be privately owned, specifically up to the high watermark. We used to use this to swim over and surf on Sea Island ... much to the chagrin of their rent-a-cops!

                            • lostlogin 10 hours ago

                              We have a variation on this in New Zealand. Below the high tide line is public land. Good luck getting there.