simon_acca | 6 months ago | on: Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?
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simon_acca | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars
The EU is mandating Apple to implement WiFi-Direct
https://www.ditto.com/blog/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-...
WiFi doesn't fare any better than BLE under rubble unfortunately, but WiFi is going to be a useful technology to build disaster response tools in general
simon_acca | 11 months ago | on: Contribution of OS to slim nature and passive fanless cooling of MacBook Airs
Plenty to read on this topic here
https://eclecticlight.co/m1-macs/
A good start is the series of articles “Making the most of Apple silicon power”
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: Poll: Unitree Stunts: CGI or Real?
clickable link https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/1902218781268832538
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
Cool question!
Patrick Collison (of stripe fame) put together a collection of historical ambitious projects that got done quickly, look into the biographies of people mentioned in there. https://patrickcollison.com/fast
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How does my ISP know I am making a WhatsApp call?
They do it via operator specific IP pools https://www.whatsapp.com/cidr.txt
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper
Very cool!
If someone is looking for something similar with less hassle, let me plug my friend’s product :) https://www.inklay.app/ I’ve been using it for the better part of a year now to show the weather, a dashboard and some comics and am very happy with it, it just works and looks great too
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: Starlink Direct to Cell
SpaceX has no qualms launching competitors constellations, it has done so with Kupier already.
Sure the prices might not be quite as good as what Starlink gets but definitely comparable in big-O notation (especially compared to other launch providers).
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla
They have this on airliners now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_operations_quality_as...
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How do you sync your Git repos across machines at home?
Git is peer to peer, you can add an ssh remote that points to the directory containing the git repo on another machine.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4131164/how-do-i-pull-fr...
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard”
Nice project!
Made me think of the emoji physical keyboard from Tom Scott https://youtu.be/3AtBE9BOvvk
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: Testing sync at Dropbox (2020)
Seems like a great use case for https://antithesis.com
simon_acca | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Drumset form-factor for alternative keyboard?
Something could be hacked together with this perhaps https://jouemusic.com/en
It is not big but it is meant as a computer input device that can be struck with drumsticks
simon_acca | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to identify value and how to create one?
I meant Github issues of open source projects, maybe it's not so obvious :)
simon_acca | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to identify value and how to create one?
Github issues are an infinite well of tasks that people find valuable, and they make for a great portfolio too
simon_acca | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
The experience of making and publishing websites and apps from within puter is sobering for how simple it is. Something to aspire to
simon_acca | 2 years ago | on: Reifying execution, the interactive programming missing piece by Juan Monetta [video]
The provided link jumps directly to the flowstorm demo, while the initial 15 minutes provided an overview of the problem statement.
simon_acca | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Scan QR codes to check in guests registered via Google Forms
> the average techy has through some combination of general news like this and just enough technical know how formed an unrealistic threat model for themselves.
amen :)
simon_acca | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Scan QR codes to check in guests registered via Google Forms
Not only do I agree with you, but I don’t think anyone would be able to tell an attack was imminent if they were to see the URL anyway.
I was just providing facts to the comment above that didn’t seem to think RCE are a thing anymore.
simon_acca | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Scan QR codes to check in guests registered via Google Forms
Remote code execution vulns are still routinely discovered, for example: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-4199...
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