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alexvayon Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?

Can I create a SKILL bases on this paper top improve my AGENTS.md file? Yes, yes I can: https://github.com/bornio/skills_collection/tree/main/skill-...

alexvayon CubicleQuest: The Quirky Corporate Adventure

yeah, agree. will fix :)

alexvayon How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

I think the article is missing something visual to demonstrate the actual scoring at work.

I've made a simple plot in Excel here: http://i.imgur.com/adjaLQ9.png

The number of up-votes remains the same, while down-votes increases linearly. The scoring declining line in grey is the score.

alexvayon WiMonitor: Wi-Fi Threat Monitoring Simplified

You can even use the GUI: http://osxdaily.com/2015/04/23/sniff-packet-capture-packet-t...

There's bunch of cool options, including WiFi quality scan.

alexvayon Show HN: VisiData – vi for data

Really nice! I used https://github.com/dinedal/textql a bit, but your project seems much more practical.

alexvayon Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users

It's sad that VLC checks updates over HTTP and HTTPS

alexvayon Mirai Botnets

How many remember the Smurf Attack –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack ?

I remember claims that this type of attack was fixed forever. But physics doesn't change... Easily.

alexvayon Ask HN: All of you working with Big Data, what is your Data?

Working on reducing Big Data to help network security engineers investigate threats faster and respond more accurately.

The data, currently, is mainly from various Network Security Monitoring appliances & SIEMs.

alexvayon File transfer via DNS

Can you elaborate on this: where have you seen it? Was it a POC or in-the-wild?

alexvayon Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

What is the template engine used to parse https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/c58b91097c12fa39e4... ?

alexvayon DDoS Attack Used 'Headless' Browsers In 150-Hour Siege

I'd assume the HEADERs would be the same, e.g. basic stuff like UAS could be the same, or more low-level like Accept-* headers.

Note that this doesn't seem like a DDoS focused on high-bandwidth but rather focused on causing application load by triggering some server action and abusing the CPU/RAM, etc. In this case, Level7 analysis, is very effective and usually simple.

alexvayon Show HN: Our data-driven newborn

I think I am going to start playing with that idea. Or join you, if you're into it. I would love to be part of such a non-profit. My wife, a doctor, was very excited at the research use-cases this could help her with.

alexvayon Clojure for the Brave and True – Functional Programming

I found LightTable* as a great way to grok functional programming - you can actually see how data moves around. Really brilliant.

*Lighttable IDE: http://www.chris-granger.com/lighttable/

alexvayon Show HN: Slick Login - Seamless Login which users will love it

I am guessing they are using sound to communicate data between the device and the computer and thus confirm proximity.

alexvayon Show HN: Our data-driven newborn

This is brilliant. Very nicely done! I can totally see this grow into hacker-oriented spin-off of patientslikeme.com... parentslikeme.com?

alexvayon SnowShoe - Secure, intuitive, cost effective authentication for every device

What's wrong with NFC? I thought the goal was to walk away from external tokens like SecureID - far more secure but bulky. At least I can wear an NFC authenticator as a ring.

alexvayon Ruby 2.0.0 in Detail

The colors of the site are _terrible_ on the eyes!

alexvayon Moneta - A user timeline visualization tool

Times out...

alexvayon We Need to Have Sympathy for Those With Depression. It is an Illness

"We Need to Have Sympathy." Period. There, I fixed it for you.

alexvayon Innovative Game Concept (Done in Canvas/JS)

Very cool!

alexvayon The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers

Why such an article on such a topic start with torture is beyond me. The question we should be asking, I think, is when (the "how" is no longer relevant now is it) we start engineering humans, how we avoid the situation that has been "documented" in every post-apocalyptic sci-fi where a superior species arrives (or created) and wipes out the weaker, non-engineered humans?

I am far less concerned with philosophical question, such as whether a person engineering to be the smartest would be smart on his own right; would a person engineered to be the strongest & fastest be a successful athlete in his own right, or is it simply an unfair inter-species competition which is no different than pitting a disabled person vs. a healthy one; etc.

alexvayon Anonymous warns Israel: 'No one cuts Internet on our watch'

Missiles from Gaza on civilians are fine, just don't touch the Internet. Right.

alexvayon Show HN: Mapsaurus, the visual map of the Android Store

Great stuff!

Your Android app says "Double click an app to start." I think it would be more fitting to read "Double tap" instead.

alexvayon Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes

It's a pwn at GMail, by Microsoft. :)

alexvayon 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

So I changed my password through my PC yesterday, went to my Android client and, to my surprise, it is logged on the mobile!

It's been more than 12 hours, and the access token for the mobile client is still connected to my account, despite changing my password.

I would expect all tokens to be revoked on-password-change. Really disappointing.

I'll have to set up an SSL proxy later to dump the traffic from Android, see what is happening. Anyone compiled SSLDump for Android?