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pnm45678··on I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz
As others have pointed out, this kind of automated business use is very much against the T&Cs of carriers, so if you do this heavily you can expect to run into issues.

They can and do detect this kind of thing. In a similar vein there is also a whole industry in "sim boxes". Effectively a box of SIM cards / radio equipment that acts as a server. These can similarly be set up as servers to send SMS through carriers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_box ), though seemingly the popular use is to bridge VOIP calls to local destinations and sell "minutes" to others. There is also apparently a whole industry in software to manage them. These days that management software allegedly includes measures to have the SIMs behave like humans to evade detection (the sims text each other, browse around, sleep for hours of the day, and so on).

pnm45678··on Show HN: a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser
And on M5 Safari 26, jacking the samples/pixel setting up high seems to trigger a system reboot, which is most curious
pnm45678··on A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers
It all depends what you’re optimizing for.

Clearly, when you don’t transfer indexes, you will not have to transfer as much data.

However, the tradeoff is that the database is going to have to do more work to regenerate those indexes when you reconstruct it from the text dump at the destination (as opposed to the case where the indexes were included)

pnm45678··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
Ah, fair enough! Thanks
pnm45678··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
Couple of minor bugs, one of which is arguably not a bug: 1. When you play a game for the first time it invites you to make an account. When you make an account, it seems to forget that you played that particular game already. 2. By manipulating the URL you can play games from the future.
pnm45678··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
I like the calendar where you can go back to play other days. Enhancement request: would be nice for this to have an indicator of which days you have already played.
pnm45678··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
It seems not to accept a correct answer, "ladel" for Wednesday, March 26, 2025 (minor spoiler, apologies!)
pnm45678··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
The limiting time factor for me was the clicking around on the page. Allowing keyboard input somehow would be a plus.
pnm45678··on So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams
Hah, yes.

"Mostly Harmless" did have this on the front:

"The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy".

pnm45678··on My 16-month theanine self-experiment
> I think these are the possibilities:

> Theanine works, but I got fake theanine. <…>

I’d add one more possibility: “Theanine works but I need a higher dosage to feel the effect.”

FWIW my purely anecdotal findings are that supplier does matter. Natural Factors Suntheanine gave me a noticeable effect. Nature’s way L-Theanine did not.

pnm45678··on Maybe ChatGPT has some pre-frontal cortex problems
Here's the thing (which you probably knew going in).. Generative AI is quite well-known to be terrible at drawing specific times on clock faces.

This is down to the training data. It has been trained on a huge amount of images.

That includes advertising. For whatever reason, wrist watch manufacturers have a tendency to set watches to 10:10 in ads, almost without exception. Perhaps it's just a nice-looking time, or it's good for comparison purposes.

Simply Google "wrist watch" and you'll see.

So, these generative models have a huge bias towards 10:10 on clock faces, because that's what all the clocks they've been trained on look like.

pnm45678··on Pylyzer – A fast static code analyzer and language server for Python
Can it be made to output SARIF (Static Analysis Results Interchange Format)?

This would increase the value as the results would be easier to integrate with other tools (for example, you can post SARIF to GitHub).

pnm45678··on Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
"Inbox Zero has undergone a thorough security process with Google to ensure the protection of your emails."

Can you go into some more details on this? What security process, exactly?

pnm45678··on Synthetic Memory Protections: An update on ROP mitigations [pdf]
perhaps it's time we stopped shoehorning memory to fit C and just used more memory-safe languages?
pnm45678··on Making macOS Apps Uninstallable
> Well, looks like we got a working uninstaller with a good user experience for free.

Yes, but the downside is that you're now relying on an unstable interface (as I understand it, this behaviour is not documented as a contract anywhere). Apple would be free to break you at any time.