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nerdbeereon Hackers exploit 16 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025

> While Tesla also provided a Model 3/Y (Ryzen-based) equivalent benchtop unit, contestants have only registered attempts against the company's wall connector.

Can someone provide more context on what this means? Does it imply that it’s not an interesting target, or does it mean that it’s well-tested and secure?

nerdbeereon Complete Rewrite of ESLint

From the github issue:

> Runtime agnostic. ESLint should be able to run in any runtime, whether Node.js, Deno, the browser, or other. Runtime agnostic. ESLint should be able to run in any runtime, whether Node.js, Deno, the browser, or other. […]

nerdbeereon How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner

https://aisler.net/

they definitely aren’t as cheap as Chinese offers but I always found them to be reasonably priced. They manufacture in Germany.

nerdbeereon DJI FPV

50 Mbit is the maximum bandwidth it can do. It decreases with range which will result in degraded image quality.

nerdbeereon Cname / DNS based third party tracking

OT: Is there a better and/or easier way to read scientific papers? Especially on mobile devices I find PDFs with two-column layouts really hard to read. I wish scientific publications would just be simple html.

nerdbeereon Games on GitHub – A list of popular/awesome video games hosted on GitHub

Also mindustry (1) which is a factorio-like game with tower defense elements. Great game and still in active development.

(1) https://mindustrygame.github.io

nerdbeereon UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster

Also noteworthy is the upcoming ASUS PN 50 with the new Ryzen Renoir CPUs with up to 8 cores and 64GB RAM.

When this will be available in Europe I’ll get that to replace my MacBook for a developer machine.

https://liliputing.com/2020/06/asus-pn50-is-a-mini-pc-with-u...

nerdbeereon Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

I'd be interested to see their listener numbers after they switched to spotify (and rebranded). Unfortunately it's hard to get any meaningful statistics in the podcast world except for downloads.

I was a regular listener of Sanft & Sorgfältig back in the days and stopped after their switch to spotify because it was just inconvenient to use compared to overcast. I'd probably do the same with other podcasts I regularly consume.

nerdbeereon Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

I subscribed to a couple of newsletters to stay up to date. The TLDR I read on a daily basis. JavaScript Weekly is also very good if you're interested int webdev.

Here's a good list of different newsletters: https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters#technology-...

nerdbeereon Going from macOS to Ubuntu

I've also been looking around for an alternative these days. The main reason for me is performance: you can get a HP ZBOOK STUDIO X360 G5 with 64GB RAM, i9, 2TB SSD, solid 4k display and graphics for roughly 3500€

I'm just unsure of how much productivity I'd lose when going back to windows with a virtualized linux for software development.

I guess I have to hold out and hope for the new macbook pro 16".

nerdbeereon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

I run a SaaS page builder that generates amp websites for my customers. It's targeted towards small agencies that currently rely on wordpress.

Backend: Node.js hosted on AWS ECS (Docker) and Lambda Frontend: JavaScript, React Database: Postgres (AWS RDS; thinking about switching to serverless aurora)

As for delivering my clients sites I recently switched from cloudfront to stackpath (DNS, CDN) because the pricing model makes more sense for me and it doesn't have arbitrary limitations like the distribution limit.

Other tech I use:

- Terraform for my whole infrastructure

- AWS SES for sending mails

- AWS Cognito for authentication and managing user accounts

- AWS Cloudfront combined with lambda@edge for delivering images in the right size for the requester (src-set)

- Github

- AWS CodePipeline for CI and deployments (source input through github releases)

nerdbeereon Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN

I wondered the same thing because you have to include a script from their servers on your page.

nerdbeereon Show HN: Made a new notification tool and I'm looking for some beta testers

Looks neat, congratulations on the launch! As someone who is currently building his own thing, I have the utmost respect for everyone who carries their product through the finish line. I wish you all the best.

nerdbeereon Apple Face-Recognition Blamed by New York Teen for False Arrest

> Well I blame Apple for this.

Sure, they made mistakes there. But I also blame the police here. They shouldn't blindly act on accusations just because they came from big corporation.

> For a company that touts privacy they really blew it and in a spectacular way

Exactly! It's a little sad to see that they blew it like this. With their focus on privacy they really have something that separates them from google. I'm curious how they will react to this.

nerdbeereon Apple Face-Recognition Blamed by New York Teen for False Arrest

I get some strange kill decision[1] vibes here.

So they fed a machine with flawed data, got a result and the police acted on that without reviewing the "evidence" before hand?

[1] http://daniel-suarez.com/killdecisionsynopsis.html

nerdbeereon “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

Also small scale is where lambda really shines in terms of costs. If you have some api endpoint that gets a hit 100 times per hour and does some execution then this is actually way cheaper then even the cheapest ec2 instance in a production setup with ELB.

nerdbeereon “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

Right, because it's not relevant to you. You don't care about the underlying infrastructure in terms of security, amazon does that for you.

nerdbeereon “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

The cool thing about serverless infrastructure is that it does not really concern you. As long as you are on a maintained version of the underlying platform your provider will take care of the updates.

If your software runs on a unmaintained platform there won't be any security fixes and that's why amazon forces you to upgrade at some point.

nerdbeereon “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

It's not about using what the cool kids use these days. I can't stress enough that unmaintained software should not run in production.

This way you have a good argument towards management and if you do it regularly or even plan it in ahead of time it's usually not much work.

During a product planning meeting: "Dear manager, for the next weeks/sprint the team needs X days to upgrade the software to version x.x.x otherwise it will stop working"

nerdbeereon Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit

…and 9 women are known to bear a child in one month

nerdbeereon Vivaldi Browser: Chrome engine, no personal data collected

I'm missing a "Why we are doing this" section on the website. It's not open-source and I wonder what their motivation is. How are they making money?

nerdbeereon An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard

The biggest mistake here are those ridiculous arrow keys

nerdbeereon Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

Enya vs. The prodigy

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5knIIyKpSK4

Rave.dj: https://rave.dj/moZFRBY95T53zA

Very pleased with the result.

nerdbeereon Open source tutorial for Hackintosh installation

Wrong, touchbars are not optional when you want to buy the 15" variant.

I'm using the a new macbook (15", touchbar) since half a year now and have to say that it's the worst apple experience so far.

My biggest complain is with the keyboard. Who thought of these arrow up/down keys? Also the esc key is annoying, although I got a little bit used to it.

nerdbeereon I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral

I'm not sure if I this is a sign that I should stop working on my realtime multiplayer hacker game or if it means that there is a huge market for this genre out there.