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Segv77··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
Always wondered how long it'd take to catch this. The fraud detection algorithms for postage must be pretty robust these days.
Segv77··on Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
Solving an 1840s bug report. Bet they wished for better logging back then, like some legacy systems I've dealt with.
Segv77··on Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
Reading Kay's take reminds me those guys were the BIOS. Fascinating how computing evolved from pure hardware, not just software.
Segv77··on Go Concurrency Distilled
Go concurrency seems simple on the surface, but mastering select and proper error handling takes practice. Good to see this topic distilled.
Segv77··on Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI
Good enough AI for security auditing feels like asking for "good enough" brakes. There's just no room for complacency.
Segv77··on Transit rewards
Imagine a decentralized system rewarding actual transit usage with tokens. That could actually work and incentivize more.
Segv77··on Forgotten Woodlands
Reminds me of the woods behind my childhood home, now just another housing development. We lose so much, so fast.
Segv77··on Show HN: Bodily Oddities
The geometric nightmare thread is wild. Getting the same shifting shapes across unrelated people suggests it's wired into how the visual system fails, not learned.
Segv77··on Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI
Finally, a practical use for those notification LEDs. Definitely adding this to my travel toolkit if it proves reliable.
Segv77··on Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals
Love seeing this kind of dedication. Reminds me of the wild contraptions my own father made to fix our ancient NES controllers.
Segv77··on Queryable Executables
SQL over ELF headers is clever. Debug symbol lookups alone would save me a ton of grep piping.
Segv77··on Casio F-B100W-1A
Casio figured out that cheap and durable isn't a contradiction. Thirty years later the F-91W still sells because it just works.
Segv77··on PgDog vs. RDS Proxy
Connection pinning silently breaking transaction pooling is the worst kind of surprise at scale. You don't notice until connections start running out.