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dthakuron US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19

I think Grindr underwent a forced divestiture from its Chinese owners due to US gov as well.

dthakuron Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]

I respectfully disagree, and say that hand soldering is not a dying art. If you’re working on boards on the regular you probably have a soldering iron and use it often.

dthakuron DJI's First Delivery Drone Takes Flight Globally

Anyone know how this compares to zipline's platform?

dthakuron Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript

Compression?

dthakuron Non-interactive SSH password authentication

I disable password login all my hosts but good to know people do this.

dthakuron Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Connectors

Good article. Ended too early. Let's keep going.

dthakuron Bambu Lab A1 Mini

The interview[1] between Bambu Lab's CEO and Stefan from the CNC Kitchen YouTube channel has some details about the company's background and strategy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFtbybLlk0

dthakuron Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

We mow laws with robots. https://yard.bot

dthakuron Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets

CoinMarketCap is owned by CZ. I’m not claiming anything malicious, just FYI.

dthakuron Ask HN: Learn C in 2023?

Arduino programming can be a pleasant intermediate step in learning C/C++. Specializing specially in C can be easier after that experience.

dthakuron Disk Prices

Well the story started > 10 years ago, I think. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473941

It's mostly the latter -- a better GUI.

dthakuron Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway

I've used Sixfab before. https://sixfab.com/product/raspberry-pi-cellular-iot-kit-lte...

dthakuron Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users

Thanks for clarifying.

dthakuron Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users

I don't like facebook the product, but I think they are being dunked on, too unfairly recently.

However, I'm most amazed and impressed how facebook has created a team -- likely compensated in FB equity -- and then convinced the world that the team is an "oversight board".

dthakuron Mars helicopter employs advanced control techniques to survive in-flight anomaly

From my perspective, I see a project that took years of prep. Multiple papers were written. It was tested on software sim, and NASA's physical space simulator[1]. And it finally _successfully_ flew on mars, with some minor bugs.

In my opinion assuming they were "testing in production" (production being mars!), or writing code that "definitely not have passed code review", or that they did not do couple of hours of flight testing on earth, is an unnecessarily unkind assessment of this project.

[1] Helicopter Models and Test Facilities: https://rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov/Publications/files/Balaram_A...

dthakuron Airbus eyes hydrogen power for airliner in next decade

Could you kindly provide a link for the hovering hexacopter please? Thanks.

dthakuron Oil futures drunk-trading incident

> "a good man who did a stupid thing"

Amazing that changing bits in some databases can change one's life dramatically.

dthakuron Show HN: I'm building a robot that performs haircuts [video]

Is the arm a UR3e? How much does it cost?

dthakuron Yuan falls to 11-year low

Good read https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/why-did-china-just-dev...

dthakuron GM says it will put fleets of self-driving cars in cities in 2019

You claim "I know a little about Waymo. They seem ok."

Then go on to explain:

"Waymo: Code written by professionals. A system using models trained on vast amounts of data. Written slowly, meticulously, exhaustively, heavily reviewed, and intended to be reliable."

Quality shitpost.

dthakuron Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming

Some explanations as per Ray Dalio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

dthakuron Ask HN: What 'product' have you done for your own use?

I made a user tagger for HN. Makes it much more fun to navigate the threads as I see familiar users with their interests showing through.

Interesting timing for this question, as I just released it _today_[1].

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momento-for-hacker...

dthakuron Show HN: HN User Tagger – helps keep track of users with tags

Hi all! I built this on a long flight home. Inspired by flair on Reddit. Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

dthakuron One Ethereum trader just made $1,142,400 in seconds, thanks to an epic glitch

This situation is usually a trade bust.

dthakuron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

Cruise Automation | Android engineer, in-car experience | San Francisco | ONSITE Description:

We build driverless cars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfgjemwc9NU).

We need to provide interaction and situational awareness to our passengers, to make them feel comfortable and safe about the driverless car's behavior.

There are not many people in the world working on this specific challenge.

You'll be around the smartest people you've ever worked with.

Technologies: Java, JavaScript

Message me at divya@getcruise.com

dthakuron Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

https://expiryalerts.com

Notifies you (via email, slack or text), before your domain's cert expires.

dthakuron Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

Github Enterprise.

dthakuron Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?

Continue working on your product.

dthakuron Ask HN: How much do developers make in Toronto?

It was a bad situation when I worked there a few years ago. Looking at the answers, things haven't changed.

I encourage you to take employment in US, if that's a possibility for you.