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cow9on Ask HN: Is there anyway to send SMS to your phone without using Cloud APIs

Is the question asking whether you can send SMS without using any cloud API (eg. Twilio, MessageBird), or even without using API from hardware SMS gateways?

cow9on Show HN: I made a simple tool to sell your services on a subscription basis

How is this different from Chargify or ChargeBee?

cow9on We are building a CLI first PaaS without a web frontend

I thought their launch post was this https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/welcome/ back in 2004.

cow9on Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, & does it even make sense to try?

Non paywall version here https://outline.com/d8JvhH

cow9on Hacker News Rankings

I once saw this some time back, but forgot the URL. I had a hard time finding it again 'cos Google keeps showing me articles on HN ranking algorithm. Probably 'cos the site is non-https?

Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058277

cow9on What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride

"To his surprise, the app that he used to record his regular rides from Bethesda into Georgetown via the Capital Crescent Trail shared that information publicly, not just with his network of friends and followers. Someone had located a record of his ride on the path on June 2, matched it to the location of the assault from the video, matched his profile picture — white guy, aviator-style sunglasses, helmet obscuring much of his head — to the man in the video, and shared the hunch publicly."

cow9on Metal as a Service

A way to provision and remotely manage your servers using IPMI and AMT.

cow9on Open-Source Phishing Framework

Context: this was used by Gitlab to conduct the phishing attempt against their own employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269661

cow9on Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

We use this daily in our company. Projects are organized as boards. To solve visibility issues across multiple boards we develop a standalone program to consolidate cards from multiple boards to a user view. There has been issues like CPU usage, UI bugs and build issues but on the whole it is still quite useful.

Development and releases seems haphazard and there are no unit tests. Only eslint.

cow9on Comparing Google Maps 3D with Singapore’s OneMap3D

This is a preview of the data provided by OneMap3D programme that Singapore Land Authority is launching soon. https://geoworks.sg/onemap3d-developer-programme/

cow9on A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

I suppose this is intentional? https://www.ivorreic.com/

cow9on Hacked to Bits

Ignore the title. This is about the Saudi/Jeff Bezos/Trump saga that's unfolding like a Hollywood thriller.

cow9on Welcome to the Missing Manual for Three.js

This is an interactive online manual for Three.js by a core collaborator on the project. The examples are interactive and easy to follow. It is still a work in progress but looks good so far.

cow9on Facebook adds corrective label on user's post under new Singapore fake news law

This is what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/yLD5sLn

cow9on Huawei unveils its own open-source software ecosystem

“Huawei's latest flagship smartphones unveiled this week will not come with Google services or apps, although they still function like Android phones as they run on the open-source version of the operating system.”

cow9on MapKit JavaScript (Beta)

Could this be an alternative to Google Maps?

cow9on The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’

  “Nowadays, making music is just like trading stocks, looking at the data all day,” he says.

cow9on Mud Maker: The Man Behind MLB’s Essential Secret Sauce

  Good mud needs to mature. It needs to be cleansed. (“Clean mud,” he’ll have you know, is not a contradiction in terms.)

cow9on Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD) (2012)

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4020210

cow9on Nvidia AI turns sketches into photorealistic landscapes in seconds

GAN generally works very well for landscapes, which is what is being demonstrated, not so much for objects esp humans. It’s still impressive though.

cow9on Legislation for Cybersecurity of Internet-of-Things Introduced

Bruce Schneier famously called for regulation of IoT:

1. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/02/security_and_...

2. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/09/opinions/cybersecurity-la...

Now it appears someone is taking this up.

cow9on Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets

Shares of Citrix is down after report of hack:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/citrix-tumbles-on-report-of-...

cow9on Announcing workers.dev

> Though we fully utilize Workers, no Workers were harmed in the making of this site.

cow9on Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked.

cow9on Danger of Calling Out Cyberattackers

Basically, what happened was:

  Company A bought cybersecurity insurance from company B
  Company A suffers a breach
  "Official statement from the White House called the malware “part of the Kremlin’s ongoing effort to destabilize Ukraine"
  Company B refuses to pay, citing exclusion due to "hostile or warlike action in time of peace or war"
  Company A sues company B

cow9on You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)

"For individuals the upshot is the same: aim small. It will always suck to work for large organizations, and the larger the organization, the more it will suck."

do you agree?

cow9on On SGQR, Singapore's unified QR code payment system

SPQR refers to something totally different.. the article is on SGQR, the newly adopted QR code for e-payment in Singapore

cow9on The Young and The Reckless

The original title is "The Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire—And Went Too Far | WIRED"

cow9on Show HN: I shipped my first product

congratz.you should provide an option to save compass direction as well.