HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

thisacctforreal

1,004 karma · joined April 12, 2017

submissionscomments
thisacctforreal··on Discarded smart lightbulbs reveal your WiFi passwords, stored in the clear
Maybe they can setup a wifi network with a mac from the bulb and have Google tell them where you live.
thisacctforreal··on Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
I imagine they'd rather you go unpatched than run the risk of not waking you up for an appointment?
thisacctforreal··on Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
I've found rebooting on mac pretty painless regardless.
thisacctforreal··on Show HN: Package Diff: compare two versions of a published NPM package
This is great, nice work.
thisacctforreal··on Is Elon Musk trying to commit ‘suicide by SEC’ by taunting the agency?
Off-topic but someone else will likely get that device, the iPhone 5s from October 2013 has the latest iOS.
thisacctforreal··on WebDAV (2010)
Mirror https://archive.is/O0pi9
thisacctforreal··on The Mate X is Huawei’s 5G foldable
Apple invests a lot into security and performance R&D.
thisacctforreal··on Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page
Everything after # in the URL is not sent to server, which makes it handy for storing tokens.
thisacctforreal··on Are robots better baristas? Berkeley’s Bbox café thinks so
Skipped the intro, watched 10 minutes on my break as a part-time barista and it's great so far.
thisacctforreal··on Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
"[..]" was a list of all the problems that frustrated people before the stepped process.
thisacctforreal··on In Search of the Northern Lights
There is a large winter tourism market in the Yukon for aurora, Japanese tourists are particularly fond of them and are frequently up to try seeing them.
thisacctforreal··on How to Calculate the Phase of the Moon
Fwiw it's 9KB, not 9K SLOC.
thisacctforreal··on Millions in cryptocurrencies frozen after Canadian founder's death
If the money moves everyone will know.
thisacctforreal··on Sheryl Sandberg: The teens consented
It's okay they knew he was lying.
thisacctforreal··on Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable: permanent snaps
They go out of their way to detect root and block the app on Android, but I'm sure there are counter counter measures regardless.
thisacctforreal··on Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies
I particularly like the ``JSON.stringify({ name: "Albert Einstein" }) in dbProxy``.
thisacctforreal··on Show HN: FBP editor for music/vfx with [three, tone, tensorflow].js nodes
On iOS the leftmost 25px or so is clipped, horizontal scroll doesn't do anything despite the indicator, and vertical scrolling feels gross.
thisacctforreal··on Show HN: Fine Wordclocks: more than a time piece, they are a piece of art
Maybe a GPS receiver could provide that in a future version?
thisacctforreal··on To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet
Amusingly, rescuing a Soil Stradivarius happens to be a side quest in Fallout 3.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Agatha%27s_Song

thisacctforreal··on Input: Fonts for Code
Fantasque Sans Mono is my daily driver, I love it.
thisacctforreal··on The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR
The 5s was the first 64-bit ARM CPU in a phone, I've got my fingers crossed it might recieve iOS 13.
thisacctforreal··on FizzBuzz in ten languages
This brainfuck implementation is super neat:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/148958

thisacctforreal··on Potholes to avoid when migrating to IPv6
Call me a luddite but I'm not looking forward to IPv6.

How about IPv5; add another byte.

We can keep the colons 192:168:1:1:1.

thisacctforreal··on Apps sending users’ data to Facebook without their consent
I wonder if it's possible to create an app that creates a local VPN that routes through the other VPNs.
thisacctforreal··on Apps sending users’ data to Facebook without their consent
According to the 35c3 talk[0] by the authors, both SkyScanner and The Weather Channel updated their apps to stop the tracking after the authors told them it was happening.

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...

thisacctforreal··on Applied Cryptography Engineering (2013)
Serious Cryptography is currently avaiable in the Humble Book Bundle if you pay $15 or more[1], sale ends in 1 day 15 hours as of writing.

Would you recommend any other books in the bundle tptacek?

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-for-the-holidays-...

thisacctforreal··on Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets
People expect to be phished when opening emails in Gmail, they don't expect to have to distrust native app dialogs.
thisacctforreal··on Using different delimiters in sed (2010)
How does the GNU-ism work at a shell level?

In your first example $0 is "sed", $1 is "-i", $2 is "...", no? What signifigance does the -i"" have in bash apart from 'concat -i to ""'?

The BSD syntax is plain, $1 is the option "-i", $2 is the value for that option: "", $3 is "...".

Edit: off by one

thisacctforreal··on Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake
They redacted the PII, and I wouldn't call this doxxing to begin with.
thisacctforreal··on New Porsche 911 Reaches Top Speed in 6th Gear; Not 7th or 8th
I think it’s closer to Linotypes vs Computers.

Sure they’re wasteful, but there’s an elegance to our complicated mechanical contraptions that isn’t captured with electric systems.

← PreviousPage 2 of 11Next →