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synack··on iPhone Duo
Apple Watch with cellular is effectively iPhone mini. There are 3d printable cases to make it into a bar phone.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1022751-watch-phone#profile...

synack··on Searching for the best silicone USB cable
Almost seems like it’d be easier to spend a couple weeks in Shenzhen getting cables made to your specifications rather than testing everything on the market.
synack··on There's no such thing as a small software team anymore
Libraries, not services.
synack··on The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)
The Alpha CPUs didn’t implement the div instruction and Linus’ assembly version was faster than DEC’s in some cases.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...

synack··on Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Don't these things get more efficient as they scale up? One big plant is probably better than 30 small ones.
synack··on Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money
I once saw a job candidate take a competing offer from Facebook because they had better snacks.
synack··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
I came up with a color code based on the wiring: Red for Power Only, Blue for USB 2.0, Green for USB 3 (the ones with the extra pairs connected). I use paint pens to mark every cable I come across with this code. Generally speaking, only the Green ones have special PD emarker chips.

It doesn't cover every possible configuration, but it's good enough for when I'm like "I need a USB cable" vs "I need a good USB cable"

I use this tester: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CF95VL2Y

synack··on AWS CloudFront Is Down
Jul 16 3:18 AM PDT We continue working to resolve the increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. Customers utilizing other origin types remain unaffected by this issue. Based on our investigation, we believe the root cause is related to a packet processing subsystem responsible for routing requests from CloudFront's edge locations to resources within customer VPCs. We continue to recommend that customers who are able to do so temporarily change their origin type to resolve the errors. We will provide another update by 4:15 AM PDT, or sooner if additional information becomes available.
synack··on News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
They aren't actually shipping the new RP2350 silicon revision on Pico 2 boards yet. If you want the errata fixes, you've gotta source the chips and make your own boards.
synack··on Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
I toured a sorting facility in Seattle recently. They said the only really profitable output is aluminum, everything else costs more than virgin material.
synack··on Accelerando (2005)
Tell Claude that it’s a Culture Mind. Entertaining for a little while.
synack··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Sounds like an opportunity for the business school to do a seminar on forming an LLC and writing contracts.
synack··on Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
If your container has setuid binaries and these modules are loaded, yes.
synack··on I am building a cloud
Nevermind, I misread their HTTPS proxy documentation. Cloud is fine.
synack··on I am building a cloud
Have we already forgotten about the NSA's "SSL added and removed here! :)" slide that Snowden showed us?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6641378

synack··on College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
I learned HTML/CSS from a book on a computer with no internet access. Seemed reasonable at the time but in hindsight was absolutely ridiculous.
synack··on Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages
imo, the real value of Ada/SPARK today is that it enforces a clear split between specification and implementation, which is exactly what your LLM needs.

You define the interface, types, pre/post conditions you want in .ads file, then let the agent loose writing the .adb body file. The language’s focus on readability means your agent has no problem reading and cross referencing specs. The compiler and proof tools verify the body implements the spec.

synack··on Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages
I’ve written some bit-banged serial drivers in Ada. It’s not exactly VHDL, but it rhymes.

https://github.com/JeremyGrosser/softdev/tree/master/src

synack··on Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
Reads like AI. Not sure what OAuth/JWT has to do with Layer 3.
synack··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
Are they considering all uses of window.history.pushState to be hijacking? If so, why not remove that function from Chrome?
synack··on Running out of disk space in production
mkfs.ext4 defaults to 5% reserved for root. -m 0 to turn it off.
synack··on Build web apps for smart glasses
I wasn't aware of these glasses, pretty cool. Not sure I'm ready to drop that much money on a pair with prescription lenses though.

Would be useful to have my multimeter display in my field of view when heads down debugging a circuit. There are a few bluetooth meters on the market, so I think this is doable?

Looking at the SDK, the fixed LVGL font is a bummer. Ideally I'd like to have a raw framebuffer to control, though I imagine this is difficult to do over bluetooth without blowing your power budget. Maybe you could have a custom indexed tilemap and push sprites around?

synack··on GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
Yet Sourceforge has been putting ads on open source projects for decades.
synack··on Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers: trading cache for cores for 2x performance
Is the Linux scheduler aware of shared CPU cache hierarchies? Is there any way we could make the scheduler do better cache utilization rather than pinning processes to cores or offloading these decisions to vendor specific code?
synack··on Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
Library of Congress has some well considered recommendations for archival. https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/TOC.html

For web content they recommend gzipped WARC. This is great for retaining the content, but isn’t easy to search or render.

I do WARC dumps then convert those to ZIM for easier access.

synack··on Felix "fx" Lindner has died
One of my favorite DEF CON talks https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2017/DEF%20CON%2017%20vid...
synack··on Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?
Micron is building a bunch of new fabs in the US right now- two in Idaho, two in New York, and modernizing one existing fab in Virginia. The first Idaho fab will come online in 2027 and NY/Virginia fabs in 2030.

https://www.micron.com/us-expansion

So, more chips coming soon, but who knows if that's enough to keep up with demand for the next few years.

synack··on SQLite Is a Self Contained System
Could say the same about Postgres. People like their databases.
synack··on Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
TI-30Xa still sits on the corner of my desk along with a pen and small notepad. I use it 2-3 times a week. Still faster to reach for it than find the calculator app on my phone or PC for simple tasks.
synack··on Some notes on starting to use Django
Claude Code is also very good at building basic CRUD apps with Django.
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