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ourcat··on Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M
To me, it boils down to incompetent auditing of the contract code.

Arguably things like this should make the future a bit more secure, from what gets learnt. In the same way other code industries learn from found bugs or exploits.

ourcat··on Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
I agree. I see HN as a kind of "peer review" of submitted links and information.
ourcat··on $600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date
The funds are in the process of being returned:

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/114189/poly-hack-attacke...

ourcat··on $600M stolen from crypto platform Poly Network
The funds are now being returned.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/114189/poly-hack-attacke...

ourcat··on What cats do when we’re not looking
How about an Apple Air Tag on a collar?
ourcat··on Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
Got it. :+1: UK here.
ourcat··on Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
https://dev.blues.io/hardware/notecard-datasheet/note-wbex-5...
ourcat··on Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
That's what it comes loaded with. 500Mb data and 10 years connectivity, which I assume you can top-up.
ourcat··on Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
I see there's a board for an ESP-32 Huzzah Feather devkit, which can run a web server too. Interesting.

Also interesting is no need for 'KYC'.

ourcat··on Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
With this offer of $49 for "10 years of cellular" (and 500Mb data [1]) included, I wonder which LTE network is expected to provide and support that connectivity for that long?

Something like this could be a good candidate for what the Helium Network (and similar) are intending to do.

[1] : https://dev.blues.io/hardware/notecard-datasheet/note-wbex-5...

ourcat··on How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works
I did my first autocomplete search UI with that library.

These days, due to the rest of the project, I've been using Angular and Material's Autocomplete component, which I've found very easy to customise for in-memory indexes or hits to a remote ElasticSearch 'suggester' proxy endpoint.

ourcat··on How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works
For content like this, it's much easier to download the entire search-index.json and run the auto-complete against that.

Rather that than hitting a search endpoint (after typing a certain amount of characters).

ourcat··on High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
There is a 'Woodhenge' nearby ;)
ourcat··on My rant about React
Having built websites for about 25 years now, and initially feeling quite against these large frameworks/toolchains for building large 'web apps' which needed to update things on the page without reloading, I looked in to React and Angular.

I work now with a small team. A backend server guy, who builds the API endpoints; a 'designer' guy, who helps make sure things look the way they should (not a JS coder at all); and myself who wires it all together and deploys the sites.

I ended up choosing Angular over React, and have been extremely pleased with the experience.

But one of the key reasons for picking Angular over React was the nice way it deals with 'components' and the TS/JS, HTML and (S)CSS they need.

If I'd opted for React, there didn't seem to be any easy way the 'designer guy' to still contribute, since much of the markup is deeply embedded into the JavaScript.

Angular has been an absolute pleasure to work with, in the team setup we operate within.

And I've grown to really like working with TypeScript, along with the deployment pipeline we've now evolved.

I still don't quite know what it is about React that makes it seemingly so popular with developers (and job ads), over another framework like Angular. Is it a Facebook thing/attraction over Google? Very curious to know why.

ourcat··on 38% of remote workers work from bed
I've been WFH for over a decade.

I like to call this mode: "Duvet-Desking".

ourcat··on Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment
The "insider" info to a journo came after the fact.

Also: https://twitter.com/CryptoCobain/status/1419776583531892737

ourcat··on Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment
To be fair, it really started due to the recent job opening for a digital currency and blockchain product lead at Amazon.
ourcat··on Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
Audio is fairly unique in that it's a medium that can be consumed and created while doing something else.
ourcat··on Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has Bought Bitcoin, Personally Owns Ethereum, Dogecoin
He also said that it's likely that Tesla will accept Bitcoin again.
ourcat··on Twike
Are these like those things I've seen tourists riding around in San Francisco?
ourcat··on The art of asking nicely
Loving "a herd of sheep grazing on a lush green hillside by tim burton".
ourcat··on Show HN: Face Maker AI. Sketch to create photorealistic faces
Got a "Login required" error in the Console. Logged in to massless. Still no dice.

Now seeing "redirectUri: "https://massless.io/app/auth" in console and spinner.

ourcat··on Hoard-of-bitfonts: bitmap fonts from disused operating systems
I'm tempted to write something to help convert these for using in various U8g2/GFX libraries for micro-controllers. (I like building LED matrix/screens.)

It seems monobit only supports reading C/C++ fonts.

ourcat··on Jsonbin.io has released DOT Paths for JSON
You're missing a zero (or the comma is misplaced) on the Requests limit on the pricing plans grid.
ourcat··on Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs
Hmm.. It'a already the name of quite a popular side-loading app/store for VR games. https://sidequestvr.com/
ourcat··on Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist
Their 'screenshot' bots even sent a copy of the "offending" ones with a little red box drawn around the "XXX" song title in the footer player. (I assume, via CV or similar)
ourcat··on SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon
Agreed. And it's the auditors who need to get better.
ourcat··on Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist
I recently had an Android app removed from the Play Store for offensive content in the screenshots.

We're a music site/radio station, and the name of the song playing in the player was 'XXX'. That's all it was. It has been in the store like that for a few years.

Updating the screenshots got it listed again, but it was, as you say, totally bonkers.

ourcat··on Two new studies warn that a hotter world will be a more violent one
Or Idiocracy.
ourcat··on Let web applications be file handlers
I think this is fairly standard practice these days, depending on the location of the registrar. (eg: EU)
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